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Katherine Paterson - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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Born October 31, 1932, Huai'an, Jiangsu, China is a contemporary American writer and actress.

Her father, a missionary for the American Presbyterian Church, was the director of a boys' school and helped build and strengthen church communities among the local community. In the summer of 1937, when the whole family was vacationing in the mountains, the Sino-Japanese War broke out. The return home proved impossible. My father crossed the front line and returned to Guaihin for his school and church duties, but his mother, brother, three sisters, and Catherine herself had to seek refuge in the United States, from where they later moved to Shanghai. One of her early literary experiences was a letter to her father, in which she describes how sad she is without him. Frequent travel was the rule for this family rather than the exception. By the time Katherine turned eighteen, her family had changed their place of residence fifteen times.
As a child, every now and then she had to adapt to new circumstances, learning from her own experience what it is like to be a visitor and a foreigner, and learning what it means to feel out of place. But be that as it may, the external instability of her family's life was opposed by the reliable protection of parental love and care; It was with her family that Katherine came to know and love the Bible.

From an early age she felt the power and majesty of Scripture; what impressed her most was the poetry of the psalms. Her mother not only regularly read aloud to her children, but also made sure that they had many good books to read. Outside of her family, people appeared and disappeared, while books for young Katherine remained constant companions, providing her with constant friendly communication.

Her writing tendencies were evident early on. At the age of seven, she first appeared in the Shanghai American School newspaper. In addition, she composed plays that she staged with her classmates. The entry of the United States into the war with Japan in 1941 forced the entire family to return to their homeland, Virginia, where Catherine graduated from high school.

She attended King's College in Bristol, Tennessee, where she began studying English literature. At the same time, she taught in the sixth grade of a small rural school in Virginia. She continued her studies at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, where she was primarily concerned with preparing young women for Church teaching and missionary work. She studied the Bible in Richmond.

According to Katherine Paterson, as a child, she intended to be either a movie star or a missionary. For the second, she was already prepared accordingly thanks to her upbringing and education. She dreamed of serving as a missionary in China like her parents, but in 1957 China was still inaccessible to foreign missionaries. And then suddenly another opportunity presented itself. A Japanese acquaintance suggested that she go as a missionary to Japan. But something inside her resolutely opposed it. The horrific images of the atrocities of Japanese soldiers who seized the Chinese city in which she once lived with her family burdened her memory. She did not trust the Japanese and could not forgive them for the cruelty shown to her Chinese friends. Yet her friend managed to convince Catherine to overcome her childhood memories. She decided to go as a missionary to Japan. Having mastered the Japanese language in two years, Katherine began working on the island of Shikoku with eleven village pastors, being their sole assistant in Christian education, and riding a small motorcycle from one church to another. While she lived and worked in Japan, her childhood fear and hatred gradually began to be forgotten. She made friends among the Japanese. The years spent in this country later gave her material for several children's stories, which are set in Japan. She returned to the United States four years later to continue her education.
being their sole helper in Christian education, and riding a small motorcycle from church to church. While she lived and worked in Japan, her childhood fear and hatred gradually began to be forgotten. She made friends among the Japanese. The years spent in this country later gave her material for several children's stories, which are set in Japan. She returned to the United States four years later to continue her education.
being their sole helper in Christian education, and riding a small motorcycle from church to church. While she lived and worked in Japan, her childhood fear and hatred gradually began to be forgotten. She made friends among the Japanese. The years spent in this country later gave her material for several children's stories, which are set in Japan. She returned to the United States four years later to continue her education.
She returned to the United States four years later to continue her education.
She returned to the United States four years later to continue her education.

In 1962, Catherine received her Master's Degree in Religious Education from New York's United Theological Seminary. After graduation, she intended to return to Japan, but then her life changed dramatically: she met a young pastor from Buffalo named John Paterson. In the same year they got married.

Several years have passed since the wedding, and their family has grown to six souls. They had two boys, John and David, and they adopted two little girls - Elizabeth Po Lin from Hong Kong and Mary Catherine Nahesapechea, a native of the Apache Kiowan tribe. Despite the constant need to take care of four children, she could not refrain from literary experiments. Taking advantage of every free minute between feeding babies, changing diapers, sending the children to nursery and cooking, she endlessly indulged in writing, but nothing of what she wrote was never published. Her writing talent required development. One of her friends - a member of the church where her husband served - who recognized her talent, saw the need to develop it under experienced guidance, advised her to enroll in an evening literary course at a local college. It was then that she wrote what, after years of failure, became her first published novel.

Looking back at her life, she found that it was her husband who, like no one else, supported her and urged her not to give up. Katherine Paterson began to perceive herself as a writer in 1964, when she was asked to write a textbook for the Sunday schools of the Presbyterian Church. Nine years passed before her first novel, The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, was published. Thirteen years later, in 1977, she won the National Book Award for The Master Puppeteer, published in 1976.

As her work has gained worldwide fame in recent years, Katherine Paterson has traveled to many countries where she received awards. Among these trips was a trip in Venezuela through the mountains on impassable roads to the village of Barrio Cuenepe, which was badly damaged by floods and landslides. The prize she received from the International Council for Children's and Youth Literature, she spent to provide many books for children from families who have lost their homes and loved ones. In Venezuela, she joined forces with Banco del Libro to increase the interest of teachers and parents in reading children's literature, organizing reading clubs and take-out centers. During her recent trip to China, Katherine Paterson visited Huayin, the home where she spent her childhood. And although the dwelling where her family once lived, destroyed by the Japanese, she was fortunate enough to meet an old man who was a close friend of her father and helped him escape by boat when the Japanese occupied the city.


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