author
Kate Trimble Sharber
b. 1883
A Southern-born novelist of the early 1900s, she wrote lively, character-driven fiction including The Annals of Ann, At the Age of Eve, and Amazing Grace. Her work has stayed in circulation through digital archives and public-domain editions, keeping her voice accessible to new readers.
3 Audiobooks
At the Age of Eve
by Kate Trimble Sharber
The Annals of Ann
by Kate Trimble Sharber
Amazing Grace, Who Proves That Virtue Has Its Silver Lining
by Kate Trimble Sharber
About the author
Born in 1883, Kate Trimble Sharber was an American author associated with Nashville, Tennessee. Library and archive records for her books identify her as the author of early-20th-century fiction, including The Annals of Ann, first published in 1910, and later novels such as At the Age of Eve and Amazing Grace.
Biographical notes linked to her author listings describe her as the daughter of Joseph Addison and Mary Davis Trimble, educated in private schools in Alabama, and married to Dr. A. Leslie Sharber. Those same sources also connect her with the suffrage movement and with organizations including the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women's Tennessee Press, and the Authors' Club.
Today, Sharber is best remembered through the survival of her books in collections such as Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, and library catalogs. Even though detailed modern biographical information appears to be limited, her fiction still offers a glimpse of the humor, social world, and storytelling style of her era.