Catherine "Cat" Bauer (born July 27, 1955 in Greenville, South Carolina) is the award-winning author of contemporary novels featuring the young protagonist, Harley Columba, and is known for her unique and honest voice. Publishers Weekly said, "Bauer creates a witty and resilient narrator in...Harley Columba... Readers will be rooting for this sympathetic heroine." In the Thomson Gale biography, the authors noted that: "Readers and reviewers often found the strength of Bauer's novel in the authentic voice of its heroine, Harley.^[1] Patricia Morrow, for example, in Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), remarked that 'Harley's voice is true to the experience of many young people,' and that 'Although the outcomes are not unexpected, they do not follow any formulas.'"^[2] is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Greenville is the third largest city in the state of South Carolina. ... Publishers Weekly is a weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. ...

Ms. Bauer is the oldest of five children. She was born on an Air Force Base where her father was stationed in Greenville, SC, and it was here that she was struck by ball lightning while sleeping in her bassinet during a thunderstorm. She spent the first five years of her life in Kearney, New Jersey in the same three-family house as her paternal grandparents, and her summers at the Bauer family property [1] on Bodin Lake [2] in Upstate New York. Her grandfather was the foreman of Kearfott [3], where her father was also an engineer.
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When she was nearly five years old, her grandparents relocated to Montreat, North Carolina, while her immediate family moved to Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, a small, suburban town in North Jersey which Ms. Bauer has fictionalized in her novels as "Lenape Lakes" -- "only forty-five minutes outside of New York City, if there's no traffic, although it may as well be four zillion light-years away since no one from here ever goes there." Ms. Bauer learned to read and use the slide rule before she went to kindergarten, and began writing books at the age of six. She showed musical ability at a young age, and played the clarinet, piano, violin and guitar, and was also active in the theater. Montreat is a town located in Buncombe County, North Carolina. ... Map of Pompton Lakes in Passaic County Pompton Lakes is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. ... Metropolitan statistical areas and divisions of New Jersey; counties shaded in blue hues are in the New York City metro; counties shaded in green hues are in the Philadelphia metro. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... A typical 10 inch student slide rule (Pickett N902-T simplex trig). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left, with capped mouthpiece) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212...

Ms. Bauer graduated with honors from Pompton Lakes High School in 1973.^[3] Pompton Lakes High School (often reffered to as PLHS) is a publicly funded and maintained high school in the borough of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Pompton Lakes School District. ...

After a brief marriage to her high school sweetheart, she moved to the West Village in New York City, and studied acting with Stella Adler and the National Shakespeare Conservatory. // For the West Village development in Dallas, Texas, see West Village, Dallas The West Village is west of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, bounded by the Hudson River and roughly Sixth Avenue, extending from 14th Street down to Houston Street. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress, and for decades was regarded as Americas foremost acting teacher. ... The National Shakespeare Conservatory was an acting school in New York City, offering a two-year certificate program and an eight-week summer training program. ...

She later moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career, and was active in the LA theater scene as both an actress and a playwright. She was a close friend and student of the late Don Richardson[4], whose former students also included Grace Kelly and Anne Bancroft. Ms. Bauer assisted Mr. Richardson with his book "Acting Without Agony," and it was in his workshop that she met her future husband, television director, James Quinn[5], noted for one-hour episode shows such as Law & Order. During this period, Ms. Bauer lived in the hills of Los Feliz. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... Grace, Princess of Monaco née Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess... Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an iconic Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning American actress. ... Law & Order is a long-running American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Los Feliz (usually pronounced Loss Feeliss by most non-Spanish-speaking locals) is a neighborhood in the north-central region of the city of Los Angeles, California. ...

In July, 1993, Sassy Magazine published her first short story, Run Away, which was the inspiration for her first novel, Harley, Like a Person. Under the working title of "Zee," that effort was the recipient of the very first Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award given by the Society of Children's Book Authors and Illustrators (SCBWI)[6]. Selected from manuscripts submitted for individual critique at the SCBWI Annual Conference in Los Angeles, the award is given to the manuscript deemed most promising for publication. Another in the list of "firsts," Ms. Bauer's winning entry was critiqued by Walter Dean Myers, the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award winner, a prize which recognizes excellence in Young Adult literature.
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Ms. Bauer later changed the title of her first novel to Harley, Like a Person, which was originally published in 2000 by Winslow Press, a boutique publisher that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002. Chapter 11 is a part of the United States Code dealing with bankruptcy. ...

John Lennon's life and work were major influences on Ms. Bauer, and her novels are peppered with references to the former Beatle. For example, Harley Columba was born on the anniversary of John Lennon's death, December 8th, while her parents were attending a memorial concert in his honor. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2004, Holly Bolstad of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, won her state Level I Letters About Literature[7] competition, a national reading-writing contest sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, together with Target Stores, by writing to Cat Bauer about how Harley Like a Person had affected her life. To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre -- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves.[8] White Bear Lake is the name of a city and a township in Minnesota White Bear Lake, Minnesota is located in Ramsey County Minnesota; White Bear Lake Township, Minnesota is located in Ramsey County and Washington County, Minnesota; This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area  Ranked 12th  - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 8. ... The Center for the Book was founded in 1977 by Daniel J. Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, in order to use the Library of Congress to promote literacy, libraries, and reading in general, as well as an understanding of the history and heritage of American literature. ... The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. ... Target Stores is a division of Target Corporation. ...

In April, 1998, Ms. Bauer moved to Venice, Italy, where she lives today on the Grand Canal. She is presently divorced.
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Ms. Bauer was also a regular contributor to International Herald Tribune's Italian supplement, Italy Daily, writing about the art, culture and architecture of Venice. The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. ...

On May 27, 2004 the Honorable Prudence Carter Beatty signed an Order reverting all rights to Harley, Like a Person to Ms. Bauer.</ref> That book was republished in a slightly different form in 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, together with a companion novel entitled, Harley's Ninth, which takes place all on one day, October 9th, John Lennon's birthday.

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AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS for HARLEY, LIKE A PERSON

• Booklist Top Ten Youth First Novel
  
• American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults [9]
  
• American Library Association Popular Paperback for Young Adults [10]
  
• American Library Association Quick Pick [11]
  
• New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
  
• Bookreporter Top Ten Teen First Novel
  
• Book of the Year - First Place YA Fiction - ForeWord Magazine [12]
  
• Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave [13]
  
• BookSense 76 Pick
  
• teenreads.com Top 10 Teen Book[14]
• Teen People Book Club Selection
  
• CosmoGirl Book Club Selection
  
• Selected Adoption-Related Book No. American Council on Adoptable Children Awareness Guide
  
• Winner - SCBWI Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award
  
  

Novels
Harley, Like a Person ISBN 978-0-375-83735-7
Harley's Ninth ISBN 978-0-375-83736-4
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Collections

Sixteen - Stories About that Sweet and Bitter Birthday, edited by Megan McCafferty
Lines in the Sand, New Writing on War and Peace
Time Out Venice: Verona, Treviso and the Veneto Time Out Guides Megan McCafferty (also known as Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty) is a contemporary U.S. author most known for her series of books about Jessica Darling, a witty teenage heroine. ...

References

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External Links

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