- Catherine Kidwell
Catherine Arthelia Kidwell (
January 14 ,1921 -February 17 ,2002 ) was a little-known American novelist who began her career in writing late in her life, scoring a minor success with her semi-autobiographical novel "Dear Stranger". Kidwell enrolled at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln with her daughter Jane and culminated her studies with a Master's in Fine Arts in 1977 at the age of fifty six. She continued to write and to teach writing until a few years before her death at the age of eighty one, after a struggle withParkinson's disease .Bibliography
* "The Woman I Am" (1979)
* "Dear Stranger" (1982)
* "I Couldn't Put It Down": How to Write Quality Fiction in Ten Easy Lessons" (1986)References
* "Catherine (Arthelia) Kidwell", "Contemporary Authors Online", Thomson Gale, entry updated
15 June 2001 .
* [http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/kidwell.htm "A Profile of Nebraska Writer Catherine Kidwell," Nebraska Center for Writers]
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