


In 1998, she earned a doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she studied Growth and Structure of Cities and graduated in 1988. Consequently, they all read a great deal. The family lived in the country with no neighbors and had a very old TV.

Along with her only sibling, novelist Elizabeth Gilbert, she grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her father was a chemical engineer, her mother a nurse. Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author.Ĭatherine Gilbert Murdock was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1967.
