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Cat Bauer has lived in Venice, Italy since 1998. She is the author of HARLEY, LIKE A PERSON and HARLEY'S NINTH, published by Knopf, and was a former contributor to the International Herald Tribune's Italian supplement, Italy Daily.
  • Venice, Italy
  • member since March 20, 2008

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  1. Cat Bauer

    Cat Bauer edited the summary of Cat Bauer Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • Catherine (Cat) Bauer is the award-winning author of contemporary novels featuring the young protagonist, Harley Columba, and is known for her unique and honest voice. Publishers WeeklyWeekly 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.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><1></sup>Harley. Patricia Morrow, for example, in Voice of Youth AdvocatesAdvocates (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.'"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><2></sup>
      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. 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. Ms. Bauer graduated with honors from Pompton Lakes High School in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><3></sup> 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. 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. 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.
      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. 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. 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> In April, 1998, Ms. Bauer moved to Venice, Italy, where she lives today on the Grand Canal. She is presently divorced. 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. 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.
      AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS for HARLEY, LIKE A PERSON Novels
      Harley, Like a Person ISBN 978-0-375-83735-7
      Harley's Ninth ISBN 978-0-375-83736-4 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

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  2. Harley's Ninth

    Cat Bauer edited the books like this book of Harley's Ninth Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • Added Harley, Like a Person Cat Bauer's powerful first novel of a defiant adolescent girl's search for identity, both creative and personal, will ring true for teenagers everywhere. She hits on all the hot topics: identity, family relationships, drug and alcohol abuse, school achievement, domestic and emotional violence, friendship, sex, and love.
    • marked the description of Harley, Like a Person as not a spoiler
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  3. Harley's Ninth

    Cat Bauer edited the first edition of Harley's Ninth Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • changed the language: English
    • changed the publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
    • changed the country: United States
    • changed the publication date: February 13, 2007
    • changed the ISBN: 0375837361
    • changed the page count: 208
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  4. Harley's Ninth

    Cat Bauer edited the first sentence of Harley's Ninth Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • I'm on top of the bed.
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  5. Harley, Like a Person

    Cat Bauer edited the first sentence of Harley, Like a Person Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • I'm under the bed.
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  6. Harley, Like a Person

    Cat Bauer edited the books like this book of Harley, Like a Person Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • Added Harley's Ninth Sixteen-year-old Harley Columba knows that October 9th won't be an ordinary day. At 8:00 a.m. she stands on the pier and gazes at the Statue of Liberty, framed by the morning sun and the fading moon. This is the day her first art exhibit opens in a gallery in New York City. The day Harley and her friends will visit the Broadway set designed by her newfound father, the famous Sean Shanahan. The day she returns to her hometown, Lenape Lakes, New Jersey, in stifling suburbia—with Sean, who hasn't been back for 14 years.The fact that it's the ninth also means that she's five days late. She and Evan were careless that one time, and she could be about to make a mess of her life. October 9th—Harley's ninth—promises to be a monumental day as Harley reexamines herself as an artist, a girlfriend, a daughter, and a person.
    • marked the description of Harley's Ninth as not a spoiler
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  7. Harley, Like a Person

    Cat Bauer edited the first edition of Harley, Like a Person Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • changed the country: United States
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  8. Harley, Like a Person

    Cat Bauer edited the awards of Harley, Like a Person Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

    • Added an award: Booklist Top Ten Youth First Novel
    • Added an award: American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults
    • Added an award: American Library Association Popular Paperback for Young Adults
    • Added an award: American Library Association Quick Pick
    • Added an award: New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
    • Added an award: Bookreporter Top Ten Teen First Novel
    • Added an award: Book of the Year - First Place YA Fiction - ForeWord Magazine
    • Added an award: Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave
    • Added an award: BookSense 76 Pick
    • Added an award: teenreads.com Top 10 Teen Book
    • Added an award: Winner - SCBWI Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award
    • Added an award: Teen People Book Club Selection
    • Added an award: CosmoGirl Book Club Selection
    • Added an award: Selected Adoption-Related Book North American Council on Adoptable Children Adoption Awareness Guide
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  9. Cat Bauer

    Cat Bauer edited the summary of Cat Bauer Friday, June 13, 2008.

    • Catherine (Cat) Bauer 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.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><1></sup> 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.'"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><2></sup>
      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. 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. Ms. Bauer graduated with honors from Pompton Lakes High School in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><3></sup> 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. 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. 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.
      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. 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. 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> In April, 1998, Ms. Bauer moved to Venice, Italy, where she lives today on the Grand Canal. She is presently divorced. 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. 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.
      AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS for HARLEY, LIKE A PERSON Novels
      Harley, Like a Person ISBN 978-0-375-83735-7
      Harley's Ninth ISBN 978-0-375-83736-4 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

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  10. Cat Bauer

    Cat Bauer edited the summary of Cat Bauer Saturday, May 31, 2008.

    • Catherine (Cat) Bauer 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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><1></sup> 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.'"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><2></sup>
      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. 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. Ms. Bauer graduated with honors from Pompton Lakes High School in 1973.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><3></sup> 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. 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. 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.
      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. 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. 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> In April, 1998, Ms. Bauer moved to Venice, Italy, where she lives today on the Grand Canal. She is presently divorced. 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. 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.
      AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS for HARLEY, LIKE A PERSON Novels
      Harley, Like a Person ISBN 978-0-375-83735-7
      Harley's Ninth ISBN 978-0-375-83736-4 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

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