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Catherine Landis

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Birmingham, AL, The United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Catherine Landis was born in Birmingham, Alabama but grew up in Chattanooga. Technically, she grew up on Signal Mountain just outside of Chattanooga. It's a place a little like Summerville in Some Days There's Pie, her first novel. She graduated from high school in 1974 and went to Davidson College in NC, graduating from there in 1978 with a BA in English. Landis was the first woman editor of the college newspaper -- Davidson had just gone co-ed when she started there and she was in the second graduating class of women. Landis went on to work as a newspaper reporter in New Bern, North Carolina for four years, got married and moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where she worked for a public television station -- first in promotion, then as an assi ...more

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Average rating: 3.37 · 471 ratings · 77 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Some Days There's Pie 3.32 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvest 3.66 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Trains Leave The Station: A Meditation on Aging, Alzheimer's, and Arithmetic 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Rose was the one who knew the path, but these were the things Rose knew, and I wondered if maybe it was this knowing the back of things, the shortcuts, the forgotten stories, that gives you the right to call a place home.”
― Catherine Landis, Some Days There's Pie

tags: home

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“Her house reminded me of Durwood's, the hardware store next door to where I grew up, which was a mess, partly because that's what happens when something gets old, when it moves through time holding on to things, not because some things are worth holding on to, but because it takes too long to sort through them.”
― Catherine Landis, Some Days There's Pie

tags: life-lessons

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