Katie Pickard
Fawcett
Katie Pickard Fawcett was born and raised in Barbourville,
graduated from Knox Central High School, and earned her B.S. degree
at Union College. She has been a social worker (Knox County, early
1970s), a writer and editor – writing ads for Peace Corps and VISTA
and about third world projects for the World Bank in Washington,
DC., as well as freelancing for newspapers and national magazines.
She has also tutored high school students in McLean, Virginia. To
Come and Go Like Magic, published by Knopf/Random House, is her
first novel.
Her interests
include reading, cooking (gourmet and ethnic foods), and travel.
She has spent time in Europe, across the Caribbean region, Mexico,
and Central and South America. Favorite sights, moments, and
places: flame trees in the Virgin Islands; blue clouds of jacaranda
in Mexico’s high chaparral; eucalyptus on the slopes of volcanoes in
Ecuador; Costa Rica’s rainforest from the tree canopy 100 feet above
the ground; Arenal volcano erupting in the night sky; sunset from
horseback in the high Andes; swimming with sea lions in the
Galapagos Islands; gazing at the Eiffel Tower, the Coliseum in Rome,
and other great historic sites in Europe and at the Mayan ruins of
Chichen Itza in Mexico. (Someone once said: “Life is not measured
by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your
breath away.” Such moments in my own life are a great source of
inspiration and have influenced who I am, what I believe, and why I
write. ~ Katie Fawcett)
Volunteer work
includes thirteen years in Fairfax County Public Schools --
tutoring, promoting theater, and being a Great Books discussion
leader. She is also a charter member of the Smithsonian
Institution’s Ocean’s Hall in the National Museum of Natural History
and a member of the Nature Conservancy, the Audubon Society, WETA
(educational TV in Washington, DC), and the National Geographic
Society. Two years ago she helped start a library at an orphanage
in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where she continues to be involved
in their English language program.
Katie has made the
Washington, DC area home for more than thirty years and currently
lives in the DC suburbs with her husband and son. For more info,
check out her online site at:
http://katiepickardfawcett.wordpress.com/
Book Info
To Come and Go
Like Magic is set in Appalachia in the 1970s. It will be
released by Knopf/Random House on February 9.
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375958465
READ Magazine/Weekly Reader included an excerpt from
To Come and Go Like Magic
in the January 8, 2010 issue. The piece is in a writing feature
called “Writing with the Senses” and it’s in great company — among
excerpts from Anne of Green
Gables and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
Other excerpts and additional comments about the book appear in
“It’s a First” at…
http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/itsafirst
A review is also scheduled to appear in
School Library Journal
in February. I can share quotes after the review has been
published.
Wild Girls Mother/Daughter Book Club in San Francisco has
selected To Come and Go
Like Magic, along with Jane Smiley’s
The Georges and the Jewels
and Sharon Creech’s The
Unfinished Angel for their spring reads…again, it’s great to be
included in such good company!
A few places to
order copies online:
www.amazon.com
www.tower.com
http://search.barnesandnoble.com
www.booksamillion.com
www.powells.com
http://www.josephbeth.com
