Background
She was born Catherine Adelaide Crook.
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She was born Catherine Adelaide Crook.
She majored in English and Economics at Barnard College, New York, from which she graduated magna cum laude.
Her solo work was largely non-fiction. After college she was a teacher. They had two sons, Lyman Sprague de Camp and Gerard Beekman de Camp.
The de Camps lived for many years in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and moved to Plano, Texas in 1989.
They collaborated on numerous works of fiction and nonfiction beginning in the 1960s, with Catherine revising Sprague"s drafts. Catherine"s contributions were not always credited.
In her final years she suffered from Alzheimer"s Disease. Robert A. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Catherine.
Catherine died on April 9, 2000, aged 92.
Sprague de Camp survived her by six months. Their ashes share a columbarium niche together in Arlington National Cemetery. In particular, she appears in South. M. Stirling"s 2008 alternate history novel In the Courts of the Crimson Kings and Paul Malmont"s 2011 historical novel The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown.
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She was a member of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Authors Guild, and First Fandom.