Kanha [Watanaphat] was born on 26 February 1911 in Thonburi, the eldest of three children. Her father, Phra Suriyaphakdi, was a high-ranking civil servant. She was educated at St. Francis Xavier Convent and Rachini Bon schools and on completing her secondary education became a teacher of Thai at the exclusive Rachini Lang School. In January 1936 she married the journalist and writer, Puan Buranasinlapin, and within a year, resigned from her teaching post in order to devote her energies to writing full time. [...] In the years that followed the publication of The Prostitute, K. Surangkhanang became a household name in the Thai literary world, a popular and prolific writer of novels, short stories, and magazine articles, as well as being the owner of several publishing companies and a regular newspaper columnist. Her most famous novels include Ban sai thong (1950), Potchaman Sawangwong (1950), Dok fa (1953), Kulap daeng (1955), and Khemerin-Inthira (1959). In all, she wrote over forty novels and almost a hundred short stories, several of which have been made into films or television plays. In 1986 she was honoured with the title 'National Artist in Literary Arts (The Novel)'. (from the Introduction of The Prostitute, ISBN 967-65-3079-4)