Going on Nine (Fitzpatrick) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Education—B.J., University of Missouri, Columbia
• Currently—lives in Chicago, Illinois, and Bonita Springs, Florida


Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick was born, reared, and schooled during the 1950s and 1960s in and around St. Louis, the second of six kids in her family. After graduating from the University Of Missouri-Columbia School Of Journalism, she worked on the features staff of metro daily newspapers in Hannibal, St. Louis, and Milwaukee.

In September of 2001, Catherine was in Manhattan to cover New York Fashion Week. At first word of the terrorist attacks, she rushed to Ground Zero and filed award-winning eyewitness dispatches from the chaotic streets near the tragedy. Today, portions of her reportage are memorialized in Washington D.C.’s Newseum and in the archives of the Women in Journalism Collection of the State Historical Society of Missouri.

Catherine’s articles, stories, and essays have appeared in five anthologies, in online literary reviews, and in national magazines. The author of two published novels, she is a board member of the Chicago-based TallGrass Writers Guild. She and her husband have two daughters and last summer welcomed into the breathing world their first granddaughter, Lillian. Catherine and Dennis divide their time between rush hour traffic in Chicago and fairway bunkers in Bonita Springs, FL. (From the author.)

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