Background
Kitamura was born in the town of Sugito in Saitama Prefecture.
北村 薫宮本 和男
Kitamura was born in the town of Sugito in Saitama Prefecture.
He studied literature at Waseda University in Tokyo, and was a member of the Waseda Mystery Club while a student there.
He began his fiction writing career only after teaching for almost twenty years, and stopped teaching in 1993 to devote himself completely to writing once established as an author He made his writing debut using a pen name. Initially, because the unnamed first-person protagonist of his early works was a female college student, and the name Kaoru is gender ambiguous, it was widely speculated that Kitamura was female.