Katie Brown is an America

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

n home and gardening

Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants. Ornamental plants are normally grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants are grown for consumption , for their dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use...

 television show host, author, and trained art historian.

Personal life

She grew up in a large family, having three brothers and sisters and surrounded by thirty-two cousins and fourteen aunts and uncles. One of her uncles is the late University of Iowa

Iowa Hawkeyes football

The Iowa Hawkeyes football team is the interscholastic football team at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hawkeyes have competed in the Big Ten Conference since 1900, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association...

 football coach Forest Evashevski

Forest Evashevski

Forest "Evy" Evashevski was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940 and with the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1942...

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Katie Brown was educated as an art historian at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

. She also raced on the U.S. Ski Team and had a catering business in Los Angeles.

She opened an antique store and cafe called Goat, which was located in Los Angeles and Mackinac Island, Michigan

Mackinac Island, Michigan

Mackinac Island is a city in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the 2010 census, the city had a permanent population of 492, although there are thousands more seasonal workers and tourists during the summer months. From 1818–1882, the city was the county seat of the former...

. Katie has been serving up dime-store domesticity on Lifetime Television

Lifetime Television

Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...

's Next Door with Katie Brown since October 1997 and on PBS "Katie Brown Workshop". She has opened her own workshops in Los Angeles, New York, and Bridgehampton.

Katie is married to TV executive and producer William Corbin since November 2003. They had their first child, a daughter named Prentiss, in May 2004. They adopted their second child, a daughter named Meredith, in November 2008.

Publishing

Katie Brown also has published numerous books on the subjects of cooking, gardening, and decorating: Katie Brown Decorates, Katie Brown Entertains, Katie Brown Weekends, Katie Brown Outdoors, and the recently released Katie Brown Celebrates.

External links

• Official Site - http://www.katiebrown.com/
• http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/14713/Katie_Brown/index.aspx?authorID=14713 Harper Collins author profile of Katie Brown]