Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College University of Pennsylvania |
| Genres | Young adult novels; non-fiction |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Website | |
| www | |
Catherine Gilbert Murdock (born 1966) is an American author of children's books, young adult novels and non-fiction.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Catherine Gilbert Murdock was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1966.[1] Her father was a chemical engineer, her mother a nurse.[2] Along with her only sibling, novelist Elizabeth Gilbert, she grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. The family lived in the country with no neighbors and had a very old TV.[1] Consequently, they all read a great deal.
She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she studied Growth and Structure of Cities and graduated in 1988. In 1998, she earned a doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.[3][4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Murdock's first published book was her dissertation from the University of Pennsylvania, published three years after she graduated as Domesticating Drink: Women, Men and Alcohol in Prohibition America. Her first young adult novel was Dairy Queen (2006), which was followed by two sequels: The Off Season (2007) and Front and Center (2009). Her 2013 book Heaven Is Paved with Oreos is set in the same world and features some of the same characters.[5] Other books include Princess Ben: Being a Wholly Truthful Account of Her Various Discoveries and Misadventures, Recounted to the Best of Her Recollection, in Four Parts (2008), and Wisdom's Kiss: A Thrilling and Romantic Adventure, Incorporating Magic, Villainy and a Cat (2011).[4] In 2018, she published a middle-grade novel called The Book of Boy, which was a Newbery Honor book.[6]
In 2011 she appeared in and served as a program advisor for Prohibition on PBS.[7]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.[4]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Fiction
- Dairy Queen Series
- Dairy Queen (2006)
- The Off Season (2007)
- Front and Center (2009)
- Heaven is Paved with Oreos (2013) (spinoff)
- Princess Ben (2008)
- Wisdom’s Kiss (2011)
- The Book of Boy (2018)
- Da Vinci's Cat (2021)
Nonfiction
- Domesticating Drink: Women, Men and Alcohol in Prohibition America (1998)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Catherine Gilbert Murdock's website
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External links
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- 21st-century American novelists
- American children's writers
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- Living people
- Writers from Charleston, South Carolina
- People from Litchfield, Connecticut
- Writers from Philadelphia
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Novelists from Connecticut
- American women children's writers
- 21st-century American women novelists
- Novelists from Pennsylvania
- Novelists from South Carolina
- 1967 births
- Newbery Honor winners