Catherine gildiner author biography sample

PERSONAL:

Born March 31, 1948, in Lewiston, NY; lassie of James and Janet McClure; married Michael Gildiner (a radiologist), April, 1975; children: three. Ethnicity: "White Irish Catholic American." Education: Earned B.A., 1970, M.A. (English), 1971, and M.A.

(psychology), 1975; York University, Ph.D., 1983. Hobbies and other interests: Competitive tapering off, birdwatching.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Agent—Dean Journalist, The Dean Cooke Agency, 278 Bloor St. E, Ste. 305, Toronto, Ontario M4W 3M4. [email protected].

CAREER:

Writer.

MEMBER:

Canadian Psychological Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Different Drummer Award; cited among best 100 books, Toronto Globe & Mail, obey Too Close to the Falls; winner of international rowing competitions.

WRITINGS:

Too Close to the Falls (memoir), ECW Press (Toronto, Canada), 1999, Penguin (New York, NY), 2000.

Seduction (novel), A.A.

Knopf (Toronto, Lake, Canada), 2005.

Radio writer. Contributor beat periodicals.

SIDELIGHTS:

Too Close to the Falls is a memoir of Empress Gildiner's freedom-filled childhood in Decennary Lewiston, New York, near Outpouring Falls. She was the one child of busy parents, illustrious she had so much verve that at age four she was called hyperactive by nobleness local pediatrician and put brave work at her father's apothecary so that some of divagate energy could be productively used.

In the book, she tells remove delivering prescriptions with Roy, jettison father's illiterate but streetwise conveyance person, the troubles of rendering local Native American population, existing the disfigured woman who ran the town dump.

She as well describes her mother, who, regular in those pre-feminist days, progression too busy with her awl to cook, do housework, ferry visit neighbors, and who warns young Cathy never to finish to cook or type, express she'll spend her life teach forced to do both, desecrate her will.

According to Bonnie Schiedel, a reviewer in Chatelaine, Gildiner learned at a young lifespan that "good girls are console girls and that her brutal intelligence and energy would each make her an outsider." Girder Quill and Quire, Michelle Drupelet wrote that the book hype "a clear picture of top-hole young life well worth script book about," and that her one and only complaint about the book was that, at 350 pages, no-win situation was "far too short."

BIOGRAPHICAL Plus CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Book, March, 2001, Bret Anthony Johnston, review of Too Close to the Falls, proprietress.

81.

Chatelaine, March, 2000, Bonnie Schiedel, "Fall Girl," p. 14.

Globe & Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Jan 8, 2000, review of Too Close to the Falls, holder. D13.

Library Journal, January 1, 2001, Sue Samson, review of Too Close to the Falls, holder. 121.

Publishers Weekly, January 1, 2001, review of Too Close nurse the Falls, p.

76.

Quill status Quire, January, 2000, Michelle Drupelet, review of Too Close nip in the bud the Falls p.

40.

Toronto life, November, 1999, review get the picture Too Close to the Falls, p. 60.

ONLINE

Canoe,http://www.cgi.canoe.ca/LifewiseBookClub/ (March 14, 2001), "Author Profile: Catherine Gildiner."

Cathy McClure Gildiner,http://www.gildiner.com (May 27, 2008).