Bridge to Terabithia | About the Author
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson was born on October 31, 1932, in Tsing-Tsiang pu, China, to Southern Presbyterian missionaries. World War II forced the family to flee China twice, but for the children, particularly Katherine, life in North Carolina proved as alien as life in China.
Educated at King College in Tennessee, the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Virginia, and Union Theological Seminary in New York, Paterson followed in her parents' footsteps, serving as a missionary to Japan from 1957 to 1961 after a brief stint as a public school teacher in Lovettsville,...
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