Friday, May 18, 2012

Catherine Marshall Books

At this time, I do not find on my bookshelves any books by Catherine Marshall. That is because either I read those books in El Salvador and they were given away when we left the country or else I read them later here in the U.S. and later gave them away. I enjoyed reading her books but I do not claim to be an expert on Catherine Marshall. I leave that distinction to Lurleen Trittin, a missionary wife who was stationed here in South Florida many years ago but now lives in Kansas with her parents, her missionary husband Paul now living in Chicago with his gay lover, or so we heard by way of the grapevine. Lurleen mentioned having helped organize an event at which Catherine Marshall was a speaker. I remember Lurleen saying some derogatory things about Catherine Marshall but I really don't remember specifically what she said, just something about the author being extremely introverted in personality as authors sometimes are and that the event organizers were somewhat unhappy with her for some reason that did not understand. I always enjoyed reading her books so it doesn't matter to me.