Cat Ellington

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American multidisciplinary artist and citizen scientist Cat Ellington (b. Kimberly Monique Hart to parents Linda Hart and entrepreneur Ezell Ellington-Jenkins on November 28, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois, but then nicknamed "Cat" by one of her educators in 1980 before later adopting and adding her father's surname to provide the moniker with a more syllabic flair) is widely known for her extensive work in entertainment, literature, and open science, where her creative and empirical prolificacy spans music, film, literature research, book authorship, and environmental field studies. In her disciplines as a book author, poet, literary critic and literary researcher (beginning at age 8 in 1979 with her review of Eleanor Clymer's "Hamburgers and Ice Cream for Dessert"), and memoirist, Cat Ellington, working through her Quill Pen Ink Publishing entity as an independent scholar, has authored over two dozen books on literary criticism (where she draws upon spiritual perspective, current scholarship, social theory, and historical contexts to expand her viewpoints on works of literature), poetry, and the humanities, including the noted Reviews by Cat Ellington series, the Unique Critique Trilogies, The Complete Works, The Five-Star Review, Strike a Prose, Memoirs in Gogyohka, More Imaginative Than Ordinary Speech, the Cat Ellington Sheet Music Collection, The Arts of Literary Criticism (from The Arts series), and more. Raised outside of her home by librarians, archivists, and educators,

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