Catherine M. (Hauk) Feldman was born February 17, 1916. She spent her early childhood in a homesteader’s sod house that her parents, Mike and Kate Hauk, built on the eastern Montana prairie. The ho...mehr sehenCatherine M. (Hauk) Feldman was born February 17, 1916. She spent her early childhood in a homesteader’s sod house that her parents, Mike and Kate Hauk, built on the eastern Montana prairie. The house boasted of a shingled roof, glass window panes, and hardwood floors in the main room; initially, the bedroom had a dirt floor.
Catherine worked outdoors beside her father until she left for college at age seventeen, giving her a feeling of equality between the sexes. She taught school in eastern Montana after completing her teacher´s degree (when few women were encouraged to earn college degrees). Later she completed her Master´s degree in Education and taught special education children (and some adults), while developing her literary and story-telling skills. If you enjoy The Spring Tender, look for her earlier novel, Mathilda.weniger sehen