Catherine Kidwell, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Catherine Kidwell

American writer

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1921

Date of Death: 17-Feb-2002

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Catherine Arthelia Kidwell (January 14, 1921 – February 17, 2002) was an American novelist who began her career in writing late in her life, and was best known for her semi-autobiographical novel Dear Stranger. Born in Lowry City, Missouri, Kidwell enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1969, together with her daughter Jane.
She culminated her studies with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1977 at the age of 56.
Her thesis, The Woman I Am, was published as a Dell paperback.
Kidwell then developed the story further and turned it into the novel Dear Stranger, which Warner Books published in February 1983 and was chosen as a Literary Guild selection.She continued to write and to teach writing at Southeast Community College in Lincoln; she died at the age of 81, after a struggle with Parkinson's disease.