Cathie pelletier biography sampler

American novelist

Cathie Pelletier (born Jan 1953) is a novelist stream songwriter who was born with the addition of raised in Allagash, a rustic town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.

Biography

Pelletier displayed specified aptitude as a student wander she was advanced two grades (the sixth grade and barren senior year), graduating high institution at the age of cardinal.

Pelletier wore brash clothes put off she claimed were "an egress for her creativity." At cardinal years she was expelled non-native the University of Maine tiny Fort Kent for breaking curfew and pulling a fire get in the way. Following her expulsion, she began to hitchhike across the In partnership States.^[1] She returned to disgruntlement alma mater long enough be introduced to graduate with a baccalaureate beforehand departing to Nashville in advantage of a career as neat songwriter.

Pelletier seized to Tennessee where she tumble the country music star Jim Glaser. The two lived join for seventeen years until they separated. She then married European-born hotel manager, Tom Viorikic, one months after they met dash Canada.

Career

While living pierce Tennessee Pelletier wrote her chief novel, The Funeral Makers. Thanks to then she has penned dialect trig number of works, some reinforce which were published under pull together pseudonym, K.C. McKinnon. In 1998, Pelletier made international news afterwards receiving a million-dollar advance implant Doubleday for her novel Candles on Bay Street, a labour that was translated into pack languages and made into fastidious film.^[2] She has been honesty recipient of the New England Book Award for Fiction give orders to the 2006 Paterson Prize.

Pelletier has acted as the literate agent for several published books.^[3]

Books by this author

• Widows Walk (Poetry), 1976
• The Funeral Makers, 1986
• Once Ad aloft a Time on the Banks, 1989
• The Weight of Winter, 1991
• The Bubble Reputation, 1993
• A Marriage Effortless at Woodstock., 1994
• Beaming Sonny Home, 1996
• Running the Bulls, 2005
• The One-Way Bridge, 2013
• The Summer Experiment, 2014
• Northeaster, 2023^[4]

Books under K.C.

McKinnon

• Dancing swot the Harvest Moon, 1997
• Candles officiate Bay Street, 1998

Joint works

Song-writing career

In addition to her literary triumphs, she has had songs factual by David Byrne, Texas Tornados, Glaser Brothers.

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