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Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author of young adult and historical fiction.
* She was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1967.
* She grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut.
* She attended Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania.
* Her first published book was her dissertation from the University of Pennsylvania, published three years after she graduated as Domesticating Drink: Women, Men and Alcohol in Prohibition America.
* Her first young adult novel was Dairy Queen (2006), which was followed by two sequels: The Off Season (2007) and Front and Center (2009).
* Her 2013 book Heaven Is Paved with Oreos is set in the same world and features some of the same characters.
* She has won several awards for her writing, including the Newbery Honor for The Book of Boy.
* She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.