Howie Bowles, Secret Agent was nominated for the 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile.

[5] Banks said that the grief she experienced after her father's murder influenced the themes of her novels.

[5] While a student at Wellesley College, Kate Banks applied for an internship at the Atlantic Monthly Press, where she worked for two years in the children's books department.

[5] She also had mast cell activation syndrome, which left her unable to pursue treatment for neuroendocrine cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2022.

[5] Banks died through assisted suicide in Basel, Switzerland, on February 24, 2024, at the age of 64.