Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author.

Early life and education

Catherine Gilbert Murdock was born in

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in 1967.Catherine Gilbert Murdock's website
/ref> Her father was a chemical engineer, her mother a nurse. Along with her only sibling, novelist

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, she grew up on a small family

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farm in

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. The family lived in the country with no neighbors and had a very old TV. Consequently, they all read a great deal. She attended

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, where she studied Growth and Structure of Cities and graduated in 1988. In 1998, she earned a doctorate in American Civilization from the

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Career

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. 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). In 2018, she published a middle-grade novel called ''The Book of Boy'', which was a Newbery Honor book. In 2011 she appeared in and served as a program advisor for '' Prohibition'' on PBS.

Personal life

She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.

Bibliography

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 ''The Book of Boy'' is a young adult historical fiction novel written by Catherine Gilbert Murdock and published in February 2018. It recounts the journey of the eponymous Boy, who accompanies the pilgrim Secundus as they gather relics associated ...

'' (2018) * ''Da Vinci's Cat'' (2021) Nonfiction * ''Domesticating Drink: Women, Men and Alcohol in Prohibition America'' (1998)

References

External links

Catherine Gilbert Murdock's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murdock, Catherine Gilbert 21st-century American novelists American children's writers American women novelists 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 writers Novelists from Pennsylvania Novelists from South Carolina 1967 births