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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to Dairy Queen
Though she never played high school
football or milked cows, Catherine
Gilbert Murdock is a big fan of family
farms and Wisconsin. She herself grew up
on a tiny farm (two goats and honeybees)
in Connecticut, and attended Bryn Mawr
College and the University of
Pennsylvania. She now lives in suburban
Philadelphia with her husband, two
children, and Sparky the cat. Dairy
Queen is her first novel.
Interview & biography at BookBrowse.
Did you know?
Catherine's sister is
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat,
Pray, Love.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Dairy Queen. It originally ran in October 2006 and has been updated for the
June 2007 paperback edition.
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