Two-time Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson writes of children in crisis, at the crossroads of major decisions in their lives. Her youthful protagonists turn "tragedy to triumph by bravely choosi...
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October 21, 1932. Born in the Jiangsu Province of China in the city of Qing Jiang. "If I tell you that I was born in China of Southern Presbyterian missionary parents, I have already given away the th...
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Katherine Paterson's reverence for words coupled with her respect for the power of story prompted her to keep writing for years when, not ready to publish, she was learning her craft. Her reluctance o...
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Critical Essay by Dora Jean Young
Making economical use of detail to set scene and atmosphere [in The Master Puppeteer], the author has chosen a period of lawlessness when Japan's old samurai t...
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Critical Essay by Virginia Buckley
Katherine's knack for telling anecdotes is part of her gift as a writer. As you get to know her, you realize that the quick wit and strong loyalties with whic...
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Critical Essay by Jean Mercier
Osaka in the 1700s and the desperate plight of the impoverished Japanese are the chief elements in a brilliant novel by [Katherine Paterson]…. She offers not only...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
Like intricate embroidery, [The Master Puppeteer] has deftly woven threads of several patterns that combine to make a cohesive and dramatic whole. The setting, as in ...
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Critical Essay by Patricia Craig
The exotic location and the distance in time make [the sentiments of Of Nightingales That Weep] palatable—just. It has something of the formality and simplicity...
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Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
[Of Nightingales that weep] could satisfy adolescents and adults alike with its exotic flavor and mature handling of character…. The unfamiliar pattern of event...
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Critical Essay by Richard Peck
[Jesse and Leslie] create a wilderness hideaway kingdom, the "Terabithia" of the title … It lacks the elaboration of earlier childhood fantasy, perh...
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Critical Essay by Barbara Elleman
With dexterity, the author of Bridge to Terabithia … creates nine insightful stories [in Angels and Other Strangers] that stir Katherine (Womeldorf) Paterson 1...
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Critical Essay by Katherine Paterson (interview with Linda T. Jones)
[Jones]: Your first three books are set in feudal Japan. Why did you choose historical settings for your first three novels?
[Pater...
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Critical Essay by Anthea Bell
If the American author Katherine Paterson had been writing a century ago, her evident Christian commitment would not, of course, have been anything out of the ordinary. I...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
In Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom, as in much of her previous work, Katherine Paterson writes about the difficult but enlightening processes through which young peop...
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Critical Essay by Stephanie Zvirin
[In Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom] Paterson uses 15-year-old Wang Lee's experiences over a four-year period as a device to express China's political t...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
The historical and cultural details [in Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom] are vivid, the book giving a great deal of information about [China] as well as about the Heav...
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Critical Essay by Ethel R. Twichell
[In Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom] Wang and Mei Lin are swept into the marches and battles of the Taiping and experience an endless parade of death and violence. S...
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Critical Essay by Ruth M. Mcconnell
[In Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom Wang Lee's] rise and fall and his recapture by the kidnappers while on a spying mission are stark and gripping; his ecstas...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Critics and the many readers who have praised Paterson's previous books will probably mark [Angels and Other Strangers] A +. Each story concerns a surprising...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Paterson's well-tuned, sentimental Christmas stories [in Angels and Other Strangers] seem less well suited to a children's book than to a family magazine...
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Critical Essay by Karen M. Klockner
With her gifts of insight and compassion [Katherine Paterson in Angels and Other Strangers] weaves stories about miracles of the Christmas season—miracles th...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Rudin
Katherine Paterson, the author of several distinguished novels for young readers, here presents a collection of nine short stories [Angels and Other Strangers]….
B...
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Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
In the years since turning from her earlier, Japan-based novels (most notably the award-winning The Master Puppeteer), Katherine Paterson has created a handful of engaging...
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Katherine Paterson is a famous author that was born in China. She started writing after she started reading. The first piece of writing that Katherine Paterson was proud of was a letter to her dad. Sh...
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson's life began as she was born on October 31, 1932, in Qing Jiang, China. Since she was raised in a Christian environment and her parents were missionaries in China, she dev...
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The Life of Katherine Paterson
The life of Katherine Paterson was filled with both sadness and success. On October 31, 1932 she was born in Qing Jiang, China. Because her mother and father were mis...
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine (Womeldorf) Paterson
