Birth Name:

Katherine Clements Womeldorf

Female

Birth Date:

Mon, Oct 31, 1932

Time of Birth:

04:30 AM

Place of Birth:

Qingjiang, Jiangxi, China

Age:

91

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

7°

Sco

13'

Moon

24°

Sco

49'

Asc

9°

Lib

50'

MC

10°

Can

19'

About Katherine Paterson

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Official website

• Katherine Paterson at NCBLA Board of Directors Katherine Paterson interview at NCBLA

• Katherine Paterson interview at NCBLA

• "Read for Your Life": A Conversation with Katherine Paterson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, February 11, 2010

• Barre's Old Labor Hall

• Video Interview with Patterson at

• John Barstow Paterson at LC Authorities, 7 records – husband John B. Paterson, Sr.

• John B. Paterson at LC Authorities, 1 record – son John B. Paterson, Jr.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Katherine Paterson: Sun 7 Scorpio, Moon 24 Scorpio, Mercury 25 Scorpio, Venus 27 Virgo, Mars 22 Leo, Jupiter 16 Virgo, Saturn 28 Capricorn, Uranus 20 Aries, Neptune 9 Virgo, Pluto 23 Cancer, Asc 9 Libra, Mc 10 Cancer, Sun Sextile Neptune, Sun Trine Midheaven, Moon Square Mars, Moon Trine Pluto, Moon Conjunct Mercury, Moon Sextile Saturn, Mercury Sextile Saturn, Moon Sextile Venus, Moon Semi Square Ascendant, Moon Sesquiquadrate Midheaven, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Square Mars, Mercury Trine Pluto, Mercury Semi Square Ascendant, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Midheaven, Venus Trine Saturn, Venus Sextile Pluto, Mars Trine Uranus, Mars Semi Sextile Pluto, Mars Semi Square Ascendant, Mars Semi Square Midheaven, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Jupiter Conjunct Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Sextile Ascendant, Neptune Sextile Midheaven, Ascendant Square Midheaven

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Photo attribution: Politics and Prose Bookstore, Katherine Paterson-- Flint Heart (Children's and Teens' Department)