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Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson was born in China, where she spent part of her childhood. After her education in China and the American South, she spent four years in Japan, the setting for her first three novels. Ms. Paterson has received numerous awards for her writing, including National Book Awards for The Master Puppeteer and The Great Gilly Hopkins, as well as Newbery Medals for Jacob Have I Loved and Bridge to Terabithia. Ms. Paterson lives with her husband in Vermont. They have four grown children.
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An Interview with Katherine Paterson
Q. Would you please talk about your recent books, The Field of the Dogs and Preacher's Boy?
A. I wrote The Field of the Dogs for Breakfast Serials and it appeared in almost 100 newspapers around the country. So, literally millions of people have read it a chapter at a time. I had many requests to publish the chapters together as a book, so I'm very happy this is happening. Strangely enough, it might have been my first novel. I started to write it back in the...
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