Cathy Lee Guisewite is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy in 1976. Her main cartoon character (Cathy) is a career woman faced with the issues and challenges of work, relationships, her mother and food, or as Guisewite herself put it in one of her strips, "The four basic guilt groups." Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Midland, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. Guisewite received her bachelor's degree in English in 1972. She also holds seven honorary degrees. In 1993, Guisewite received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society. In 1987, she received an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special Cathy, which aired on CBS. Guisewite was a frequent guest in the latter years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Guisewite and her husband Chris Wilkinson reside in Los Angeles. She has a daughter and a stepson.
Series
Books
Eat Your Way to a Better Relationship
1983
Mom
A Celebration of One of the Four Basic Guilt Groups
2001
Why Do the Right Words Always Come Out of the Wrong Mouth?
1988
REFLECTIONS
A Cathy Collection. Fifteenth Anniversary.
1991
I'd Scream Except I Look So Fabulous
A Cathy Collection
1999
Love
A Celebration of One of the Four Basic Guilt Groups
2001
Wake Me Up When I'm a Size 5
1985
The Child Within Has Been Awakened But the Old Lady on the Outside Just Collapsed
1994
Another Saturday Night of Wild and Reckless Abandon
1982
How to Get Rich, Fall in Love, Lose Weight, and Solve All Your Problems by Saying "No"
1983
The Mother-Daughter Dance
2016
Food
A Celebration of One of the Four Basic Guilt Groups
2001
Understanding the "Why" Chromosome
1995
Girl Food
Cathy's Cookbook for the Well-Balanced Woman
1997
Abs of Steel, Buns of Cinnamon
A Cathy Collection
1997
The Wedding of Cathy and Irving
A Cathy Collection
2005
$14 In the Bank and a $200 Face in My Purse
1990
Shop Till You Drop, Then Sit Down And Buy Shoes
1996
Scenes from Isolation
2021
Affirmations
1996
Confessions to My Mother
1999
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
Essays from the Grown-up Years
2019
May I Borrow Your Husband
1988
Men Should Come with Instruction Booklets
1984
Run for Your Life...The Man Is a Cow
1991
I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore
A Cathy Collection
1998
Work
A Celebration of One of the Four Basic Guilt Groups
2001
Shoes
Chocolate for the Feet
2000
What's a nice single girl doing with a double bed?!
1981
A Mouthful of Breath Mints and No One to Kiss
1983
I Want to Be the Person I Used to Be Repulsed By
1993
