“I
don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.”
– Cathy Marie Buchanan
Born on this date in 1963, Buchanan
makes her home in Toronto, Canada after growing up in Niagara Falls,
Ontario. Her stories have appeared in
many of Canada’s most respected literary journals, and she has received awards
from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council
for the Arts.
The Day the Falls Stood Still,
her debut novel, was a New York Times bestseller and she followed it
with the mega-selling The Painted Girls, inspired by both a notorious
late-19th century criminal trial and Edgar Degas’ real-life model,
Marie van Goethem, who posed for Degas’ masterpiece “Little Dancer Aged
Fourteen.”
Buchanan’s writing moves fluidly
from one era to another and to subjects that are wide-ranging and always
riveting. “I write to explore something
that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know
how to write,” she said. 
“I keep writing because it is deeply
pleasurable to me.”
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