Catherine Prendergast

Prendergast received her B.A. from Columbia University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1997. Her research focuses on the intersections of social and literary, cultural movements as well as the spread of the English language. Prendergast received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 to support research for her book, The Gilded Edge, which investigates the circumstances surrounding the Carmel-by-the-Sea writer colony suicides of Nora May French, George Sterling, and Carrie Sterling by cyanide ingestion. == Personal life and family ==

Her father, Kevin H. Prendergast, was the chair of Columbia's astronomy department known for his work in the field of many-body systems. Her uncle, Robert Prendergast, was a coxswain for Columbia's rowing team who painted the blue and white "C" over the Spuyten Duyvil cliff and later a professor of immunology at Johns Hopkins University. == References ==