Catherine Butler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Catherine Butler

British writer

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1963

Place of Birth: Romsey, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Catherine Butler (born 25 January 1963 in Romsey, Hampshire; formerly Charles Cadman Butler) is an English academic and author of children's fiction.Butler's most important academic work, Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2009) in the Mythopoeic Scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources and academic journals.
Another academic work, Teaching Children's Fiction is in 148 libraries.
Of Butler's fiction, Timon's Tide is the most widely held and reviewed: over 300 libraries & reviews.
Among her other fiction, Death of a Ghost, The Fetch of Mardy Watt, Calypso Dreaming, The Lurkers, are each in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews.