Cathie Pelletier (1953 - )

Genre: General Fiction

Now living mostly in Lawrenceburg, TN, this Allagash native hasn't lived in Maine year-round in over 20 years, although she has taught writing at University of Maine-Farmington and she received her B.A. from the University of Maine. Pelletier is the author of bleak yet funny novels that are usually set in northern Maine: The Funeral Makers (1986), Once Upon A Time Upon the Banks (1989), The Weight of Winter (1991), The Bubble Reputation (1993; title from "As You Like It"), A Marriage Made at Woodstock (1994; set in Portland), Beaming Sonny Home (1996), The Christmas Note (1997), and Running the Bulls (2005).

She also writes under the pen name of K. C. McKinnon (the McKinnon comes from her grandmother's name, Augusta McKinnon), publishing Dancing at the Harvest Moon (1997/1999) and Candles on Bay Street (1999/2000), set in Fort Kent, Maine; Jacqueline Bisset stars in the film version of Dancing at the Harvest Moon. Her next book under the pen name will be titled Visiting Camilla. Pelletier's also the founder of Nashville Books, a small publishing company in her adopted hometown of Brentwood (where she lived until 2002); Nashville Books publishes non-fiction books about country music and country music stars. Pelletier authored A Country Music Christmas, reprinted in 1996 by Crown Publishing. She also co-wrote The Christmas Note (1997) with country singer Skeeter Davis. She and her husband Tom Viorikic formed a production company, Luna Productions.


Last Update: 06/04/2007

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