Now I live on a soft, green island near Seattle with my husband, Philip, who is a professor. It was the first time I realized I didn’t have to get married and do laundry and spend my life making bologna sandwiches for my kids’ lunches. In 1959 I went to college at Stanford University. For my real job I wanted to be a movie star or a ballet dancer, an archaeologist or a brain surgeon, depending on what book I had just read. I didn’t know anyone else who wrote and certainly no adult who wrote for a living so I never thought about being a writer. And I wrote enthusiastically: poems, play, short stories, and even a novel (six chapters in three pages!). I loved books and would read anything I could get my hands on: Little Lulu comic books, Rufus M. and The Middle Moffatt, Homer Price and the Doughnut Machine, Mad magazine and Seventeen and cereal boxes. You can read The Ballad of Lucy Whipple to see how I felt. When I was 10, we moved to Los Angeles where there were none of those things. My favorite things about Chicago were snow, summer lightning storms, and my grandparents. Sometimes the power is in deciding to be yourself in whatever cage you're in.I was born in Chicago.
For Catherine, and for me, there is no easy solution to the cages life makes for you. More than any other heroine I'd read, this one sounded like me.
In an appreciation in the New York Times, illustrator Vera Brosgol spoke for many fans of this beloved book: "I fell hard for Karen Cushman's Catherine, Called Birdy the second I opened it.
Unfortunately, he is also the richest.Ĭan a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father? Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!Ĭatherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year-the year 1290. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call-by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man-any rich man, no matter how awful.īut by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Read the book behind Lena Dunham’s acclaimed new movie! This historical fiction classic, told in the form of a diary, has drawn in generations of readers and is a Newbery Honor Book.Ĭatherine feels trapped.
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