When D.J.'s father is injured, she ends up picking up the slack around the farm, which ends up cutting into her life outside of the farm. Schwenk, a fifteen-year-old who is the only girl in her Wisconsin farm family. written this book for to read - it never occurred to that other people would want to read it, too."ĭairy Queen is a young adult (YA) novel narrated by D.J. When Murdock got the call that the book was going to be published, she felt "Shock. Asked by Angela Arnold and Linda Katzman what inspired her to become an author, she answered " Dairy Queen." More specifically, she "came up with the idea for Dairy Queen, really wanted to read the story - but the only way this was going to happen was if wrote it first! So did." Murdock's sister told her that she had to publish the book, and without any thought, Murdock submitted it to a publisher.
Until then Murdock was a struggling screenwriter and a struggling scholar. Murdock's career as a writer was not productive until she published her first book, Dairy Queen, in 2006. Murdock published her dissertation titled "Domestic Drink: Women, Men and Alcohol in America, 1879-1940" in 1998. After graduating from Bryn Mawr in 1988, Murdock went on to the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her Ph. When she entered into high school, she tossed away the idea of becoming a writer along with her pen name.Īfter finishing high school, Murdock entered Bryn Mawr College, a woman's liberal arts school. In fifth grade, she decided that her pen name would be Gwen Tucker, because she thought the name was romantic. Growing up, Murdock wanted to be a writer. To this day, she said that she "sees on her shelf every couple years and pull it down and read the last 150 pages because it is just so good" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014). Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and Richard Adams' Watership Down. Murdock had a lot of favorite books as a child, but two stood out to her: C. Elizabeth is now the famous author of Eat, Pray, Love. While Murdock was the empress of the Young Adult (YA) section of their library, her sister Elizabeth was considered the writer in the family. The young Gilbert sisters found other ways to entertain themselves. The family had one television that received only two channels and needed to be cooled down every forty-five minutes. Her parents worked as a chemical engineer and a nurse. Catherine Gilbert Murdock grew up on a Christmas tree farm in rural Litchfield, Connecticut, with her parents, her sister, Elizabeth, a few goats, and honey bees.
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