I’m on tour throughout 2015 to launch my third memoir, Coming Ashore, which covers my life from ages 20-25. When I was on tour for my first memoir nearly 10 years ago, I wrote an article for the Toronto Star as a thank you and tribute to my...
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory Review by Bob Douglas, Critics At Large.ca This apt epigraph opens Catherine Gildiner’s first volume, Too...
Publishers Weekly Review: At age 12, Gildiner and her family moved from their Niagara Falls home to a Buffalo suburb, leaving behind a family business, smalltown contentment, and the rebellious childhood chronicled in her first memoir, Too Close...
—katherine o’day November 3, 2010 When Cathy Gildiner walked into the offices of Artvoice on a sunny day last summer, I immediately thought she was the most elegant person I’d ever seen come through that door (and Artvoice has been host to...
Discussion Questions 1. At certain points in the memoir (p. 30, 166), Cathy’s childhood confidante, Roy, appears to her to offer guidance and a sympathetic ear. How do you interpret these moments—as a literary device or as a spiritual visitation?...
Author Interview Q. Do you think your father’s illness brought you and your mother closer together, or did it actually allow you to separate yourself from your family? My mother and I were always close. I think that my father’s illness made us...
Author Interview 1.) How does a clinical psychologist suddenly become a bestselling author? Tell us about this metamorphosis. I was a psychologist in private practice for 25 years until one day when I was at a dinner party, someone said that...
A smart, nervy teen comes of age; Catherine Gildiner looks back on her not-so-typical life Montreal Gazette Sat Oct 10 2009 Page: H6 Section: Weekend: Books Byline: SUSAN SCHWARTZ Source: The Gazette She did such outrageous things as a teenager...
Production Notes: Catherine Gildiner I had the great pleasure of interviewing New York Times best-selling author, Catherine Gildiner, regarding her book, After the Falls: Coming of Age in the Sixties. To know Gildiner is to love her…rather – to...
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