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Biography of Cathy Lee GuisewiteName: Cathy Lee GuisewiteBirth Date: September 5, 1950 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: cartoonist, writer Cathy Lee Guisewite Creator of the syndicated cartoon, Cathy, which humorously chronicles the ups and downs of a single woman's life, Cathy Guisewite (born 1950) has created an endearing character whose thoughts, words and actions are humorously paralleled in the lives of millions of people (mostly women) who appreciatively follow her cartoons in over 1600 different newspapers around the world.Cathy Guisewite's immense and sustained success is partly due to the fact that she fashions her comic-strip character's adventures after her own life's experiences, which, in turn, reflect those of the population at large. Thus, Cathy readers can readily relate to "bad hair days," Saturday nights without a date, or maybe a credit-card shopping spree. When another cartoon character asks "Cathy" what she is doing for lunch, she responds, "Writing a presentation, paying my bills, having a root canal, going to the bank and picking up my cleaning!!"The Brainchild of an AchieverGuisewite, an Ohio …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…at the age of 35 years old, her mother gave up all hope and handed the collected pieces to her, assuming she would continue being a single career woman just as in Cathy. Her mother didn't have to wait much longer. In 1992, Guisewite adopted a daughter named Ivy, and in 1997, she married screenwriter Chris Wilkinson in a private Los Angeles, California, ceremony. However, she intends to keep her creation "Cathy" single, advising Good Housekeeping's Charlotte Latvala, "I was single a long time, so I don't have to be single to write about it." Associated Works Cathy (Cartoon) Further Reading Guisewite, Mickey (illustrations and introduction by Cathy Guisewite). Dancing Through Life in a Pair of Broken Heels, Bantam Books, 1993.Biography, April 1998, pp. 48-52.Editor & Publisher, October 20, 1990, p. 42; May 15, 1993, p. 43; January 28, 1995, p. 36; April 29, 1995, p. 50.Good Housekeeping, November 1997, p. 27. New Woman, March 1990, p. 90.Publishers Weekly, April 19, 1993, p. 43. Redbook, April 1997, p. 104.Savvy Woman, January 1988, p. 50. |