Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris in 1925.

For the contemporary poet/essayist of the same name (b.1947), see Kathleen Norris (poet)

Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880, San Francisco, California – January 18, 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909. She was educated in a special course at the University of California and wrote many popular romance novels that some considered sentimental and honest in their prose. Norris was the highest-paid female writer of her time, and many of her novels are held in high regard today. Many of her novels were set in California, particularly the San Francisco area. They feature detailed descriptions of the upper-class lifestyle. After 1910 she contributed to Atlantic, American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal, and Woman's Home Companion.

Selected bibliography

• Mother (1911; new edition, 1913)
• The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne (1912)
• Poor Dear Margaret Kirby (1913)
• The Treasure (1914)
• Saturday's Child (1914)
• The Heart of Rachel (1916)
• Martie the Unconquered (1917)
• Josselyn's Wife (1918)
• Harriet and the Piper (1920)
• The Beloved Woman (1921)
• Little Ships (1925)
• The Sea Gull (1925?)
• Second Hand Wife (1932)
• Maiden Voyage (1934)
• Beauty's Daughter (1935), adapted for the 1935 motion picture Navy Wife
• Over at the Crowleys (1941)
• The Venables (1941)

External links

• Kathleen Norris entries as found in Library of Congress Online Catalog search
• Kathleen Norris Obituary, New York Times
• Kathleen Norris Obituary, TIME Magazine
• Kathleen Norris at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by Kathleen Thompson Norris at Project Gutenberg

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