Years active 2010–present Name Catherine Gavin | Role Novelist | |
Full Name catherine violet gavin Born January 7, 1997 (age 27) ( 1997-01-07 ) washintong,EE.uu Occupation Actress, singer and model Books Cactus and the Crown, A Dawn of Splendour, The sunset dream, One Candle Burning, Askta ve savasta Mustafa K | ||
Catherine Irvine Gavin (1907–2000) was a Scottish academic historian, war correspondent, and historical novelist.
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Life
Gavin was born in Aberdeen in 1907, and studied history and English at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with first-class honours. After obtaining a doctorate on Louis Philippe of France, in 1931, she took up positions as a history lecturer at Aberdeen and at the University of Glasgow. She stood as a Unionist candidate in two parliamentary elections in the 1930s, but without success.
During World War II, she worked in France and the Netherlands for Kemsley Newspapers. after the war, she married American advertising executive John Ashcraft and moved to the United States with him. they were together until his death in 1998.
She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 24 June 1978.
The University of Aberdeen awarded her an honorary D Litt in 1986. The Catherine Gavin Room there is named in her honour. The university has a 1940 portrait of her, in oil, by Elizabeth Mary Watt.
She died in 2000, aged 92.
Works
Gavin's works (described by FictionDB as "historical romances") include the following: