Catherine Gildiner
Memoirist and clinical psychologist
Catherine Gildiner is an American-Canadian author and clinical psychologist who became a writer at 50. She is best known for her memoirs, starting with Too Close to the Falls.
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American Born 1948 in Lewiston, United States
About Catherine Gildiner
Catherine Gildiner was born in 1948 in Lewiston, New York. She worked as a psychologist for 25 years before leaving private practice to write. Her doctoral research looked at Darwin's influence on Freud. Her first memoir, Too Close to the Falls (1999), looks back on her 1950s childhood in Lewiston, where she worked from the age of four. It spent 150 weeks on Canada's best seller list. After the Falls (2009) follows her teenage years in Buffalo, and Coming Ashore (2014) is a later memoir. She has also written a thriller novel, Seduction, published in 2005.