Catherine Leggitt is a wife, mother, grandmother, author, and editor presently residing in Northern California. After nine moves in twenty-two years, she tries to keep an open mind to the possibility of relocating again, convinced that her husband is more than half Gypsy. She constantly struggles to maintain the attitude of a submissive wife according to Biblical dictates. In God's great mercy her husband is worth the struggle. During hr first career, she worked as an elementary school teacher, where she developed her flair for storytelling. 

Catherine began writing Payne & Misery during a terrible summer five years ago while living in Grass Valley, California, the setting for Christine's adventures. Catherine laughingly credits menopause, which had her thinking (and acting) crazier than usual. She needed a distraction and found it at her keyboard.                                   

                                                                      
                           The character of Zora Jane Callahan in The Saga of the Snoopy "Senior" Sleuth is compiled from three wonderful 
women.  One of them is Catherine's mother-in-law, Zora Jane. She is always impeccably dressed as in
this picture taken on her 80th birthday. You can't see them, but she was wearing matching lime green shoes.  

Kids and Grandkids

                                 Molly

Catherine wrote a tribute to a great dog in The Saga of the Snoopy "Senior' Sleuth. Maybe once in a lifetime, a really exceptional dog comes along. That was Molly. Winsome and gentle, eager to please and amazingly intelligent, in the twelve years Molly lived in the Leggitt household, she never failed to delight. A wonderful companion, Molly would have made a fine sleuthing partner.



   She  died  on her birthday, June 30, 2005. The Leggitt's miss their brown-eyed girl every day.

In Payne & Misery, Christine attended a cowboy mounted shooting event. Catherine's husband Bob has been involved with mounted shooting for 6 years. Ranger, the Morgan stallion, was his first horse. This picture shows Bob in cowboy mounted shooting costume. He won best costume at the CMSA World Championship in 2004.


In this photo, Bob and Ranger led the parade at SASS headquarters. (SASS stands for Single Action Shooting Society.)