Comments on: Catherine Winters in… The Case of Too Many Catherine Winters!

By: Susan Roy

Susan Roy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:25:43 +0000

I’ve known the “Young Miss” Catherine Winters since we went to college together at the University of Rhode Island, and I can vouch for the fact she is understating her achievements. Most recently, she was a Fellow of the New York Times for a competitive week-long symposium on advances in gerontology.

By: Mary Chemel

Mary Chemel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:40:10 +0000

Hi. I have been fortunate enough to have known Catherine
Winters of Young Miss fame for a considerable number of years. Certainly
in her gracious reply to your post, she greatly underplayed her talent and
accomplishments. Will you be posting your achievements? I look forward to
reading them.

By: Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:21:44 +0000

Why hello, Catherine Winters! I’m pleased to hear you confirm my guess – as intrigued as I might have been, I’m glad to have learned that the author of Sweet Dreams has gone on to do other Googleable things.

I actually feel somewhat vindicated that the “you should write romance novels” sentiment is one you’ve heard too. Rest assured, at no point did I come close to confusing self-published Catherine Winters with yourself! Still, it’s always good to make these things clear, I find.

By: Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:16:23 +0000

Yes, I am Catherine Winters–one of the big four. I wrote the Sweet Dreams book. (One has to start somewhere.) I worked for Young Miss. And I am the same Catherine Winters who today is considered prolific. Thank God for that; it means I am not as lame as you thought. I own the vintage sheet music of the song written about the lost Catherine Winters. And more than once, I have been told that with a name like mine, I should be writing romance novels! (No, I don’t read them.)
I did not write the self-published book, being Single and Loving It–let’s make that clear.
While the world is cluttered with Catherine Winterses, I cannot, will not change my name.

By: Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:25:30 +0000

Really, Katherine? That’s hilarious. (Amusing note: 3/4 people who have commented on this post to me so far on Facebook or otherwise have been Katherine/Kathryn/Katarinas.)

But yeah, I have to say, all these Katherine Baileys sound much more interesting than my doppelgangers. (Though, wow. Katherine Bailey from the University of Waterloo really DOESN’T have time to maintain a personal website, does she? Her Google rank’s about as low as you can get for owning the .com of your name!)

BTW: I like the new site design!

By: The Eeyore Librarian

The Eeyore Librarian — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:24:25 +0000

Unfortunately no one!! Hence the alias. I wish I had a more common name, then if an employer asks if its me, well… makes it easy to set up vanity search feeds though!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:35:51 +0000

Hey Catherine,
you know — the first time I came across your name on d.o or wherever it was, my first thought was “What?!?! Catherine Winters does Drupal??” And I was not thinking of any of the Catherine Winterses mentioned above but of someone I used to know back home in Dublin. I don’t think it would be fair of me to describe her in this public space, but anyway, there’s another one for ya :-P
As for Katherine Baileys, well there’s a model called Catherine Bailey (wife of the photographer David Bailey) and then there’s the Katherine Bailey who owns katherinebailey.com (“Katherine Bailey is an undergraduate planning student at the University of Waterloo with no time to maintain a personal website. :P ”) and is essentially the reason I am katbailey online. There’s also an artist and, very interestingly, an author of a book on sports motorcycles (I’m into bikes too, though not of the sports variety).

Katherine