Background
Catherine Ryan Hyde was born on April 17, 1955 in Buffalo; the daughter of a part-time musician father and a writer mother. Catherine is the youngest of three sisters.
Catherine Ryan Hyde poses with Winnie the Pooh and friends at Aucklands Shore City mall, Friday, to promote National Friendship day.
Catherine Ryan Hyde and Bill Clinton
Catherine Ryan Hyde rides her horse Soul.
Catherine Ryan Hyde with her dog Ella.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde
2885 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14214, United States
Catherine Ryan Hyde graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
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1997
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2000
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2009
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2014
Catherine Ryan Hyde was born on April 17, 1955 in Buffalo; the daughter of a part-time musician father and a writer mother. Catherine is the youngest of three sisters.
Catherine Ryan Hyde graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo, New York in 1972.
After high school, Catherine worked as a dog trainer and a tour guide to a job in a bakery. But later she started to focus on writing. Hyde published her first novel, Funerals for Horses, in 1997 with a small publishing house in San Francisco, following this work a year later with her collection of short fiction titled Earthquake Weather. Hyde’s second novel, Pay It Forward, rode the wave of good press generated by her debut work and was a subject of interest in the U.S. film industry before it was even published; that interest led to six-figure deals from both Warner Brothers studios and the publishing house of Simon & Schuster.
Over the course of the eighteen stories collected in Earthquake Weather, Hyde explores the souls of characters in transition, on the verge of experiences that motivate them to act, although not always for good. In "Paper Boy" the protagonist takes his own revenge on the womanizing lover of his favorite teacher by killing him. In "Alice Needs This" a pedophile convinces himself that his stalking of a young girl is necessary for both of them. These are characters at a crossroad; they arrive in strange towns out West fresh from funerals or breakups, eager to avoid another broken heart. The female protagonist of one story discovers that her recently dead lover has left his needy, vicious dog to her; another who is trying to recover from addictions to Valium and sex discovers a "guardian angel" who wants to help, but not sleep with her. Hyde’s 2000 novel Electric God has a storyline grounded in themes of redemption.
Hyde also writes comic pieces, such as "Mrs. Mulvaney, the Grasshopper God," in which the protagonist tries to see life from a bug’s perspective. After cutting her grass, she wonders whether the bugs stand among the corpses and the rubble asking, ‘Why, god? Why?’
Since Pay It Forward, Hyde has published more than 24 novels, and many short stories, among which are Walter's Purple Heart, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, Second Hand Heart, Take Me with You, Allie and Bea and Just After Midnight.
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2009
Quotations:
"I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before l take a breath."
"I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process."
Catherine Hyde is the founder and past president of the Pay It Forward Foundation.
While Hyde continues to be a meticulous editor of her own prose, and rewrites each of her stories several times before submitting it for publication, she refers to herself as a sporadic writer.
Catherine Hyde is single and has no children.