Kathleen Norris
Novelist, Author
1880 – 1966
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Who was Kathleen Norris?
Kathleen Thompson Norris was a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid women writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood, and the importance of service to others.
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- Born
- Jul 16, 1880
San Francisco - Also known as
- Kathleen Thompson Norris
- Kathleen Norris' 'Passion Flower'
- Spouses
- Charles Gilman Norris
(1909/04 - 1945/07/25)
- Charles Gilman Norris
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Died
- Jan 18, 1966
Palo Alto
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on July 23, 2013
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