Employment Background

Before beginning her own business, Catherine Rategan honed her craft as an employed writer. Her employment background includes:

  • Co-creative director at: ad agency Gardner, Stein & Frank
  • Advertising writer at: Sears, Roebuck & Co.; ddb Needham (formerly Needham Harper & Steers); Lois EJL (formerly Grey-North Advertising); BBDO (formerly Niefeld, Paley & Kuhn); Post Keyes Gardner; and N W Ayer
  • Staff copywriter at Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  • Independent writer: since 1979.

Education

Catherine's formal education includes:

  • University of Chicago - 3 years of liberal arts courses in philosophy, literature, ethics, political science and history, 3 courses in film analysis, 1 course in fiction analysis
  • Northwestern University - 3 courses in advertising, 1 in accounting, 2 in fiction writing
  • Newberry Library - 1 course in poetry writing

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