As Paterson grew older, however, she developed a love of language, reading, and writing, and graduated summa cum laude from King College, a private Presbyterian college in Tennessee, in 1954.
During the war, the family moved around the American South incessantly, spending time in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia-an experience that disoriented young Paterson, whose first language was Chinese. Her father was a preacher who headed a local boys’ school-but during the Japanese invasion of 1937, the family was forced to return to the United States. Katherine Paterson was born Katherine Womeldorf to Presbyterian missionary parents stationed in Qing Jiang, China.
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