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PELLETIER has written sixteen books, two of which became TV films..
Pelletier, Cathie: Cathie Pelletier was born and raised on the banks of the St. John River, at the end of the road in Northern Maine.Cathie Pelletier
American novelist
Cathie Pelletier (born January 1953) is a novelist and songwriter who was born and raised in Allagash, a rural town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.
Pelletier also writes under the pseudonym K.C. McKinnon.
Biography
Pelletier displayed such aptitude as a student that she was advanced two grades (the sixth grade and her senior year), graduating high school at the age of sixteen.
Pelletier wore brash clothes that she claimed were "an outlet for her creativity." At seventeen years she was expelled from the University of Maine at Fort Kent for breaking curfew and pulling a fire alarm.
After 12 novels, the Allagash-based author has developed a passion for narrative nonfiction and the research that goes with it.
Following her expulsion, she began to hitchhike across the United States.[1] She returned to her alma mater long enough to graduate with a baccalaureate before departing to Nashville in pursuit of a career as a songwriter.
Pelletier moved to Tennessee where she met the country music star Jim Glaser. The two lived together for seventeen yea