Katharine Atherton Grimes

Born in Michigan in 1877, Katharine Atherton Grimes was an American author whose work reached readers in the early 20th century. Project Gutenberg lists her as the author of Kwasa the cliff dweller and Bolo the cave boy, two titles that point to her interest in stories set in distant, ancient worlds.

Biographical records on Hymnary.org identify her birth date as April 26, 1877, and note that she later married Elliot Grant Grimes in 1900. The same source records her death in Tennessee in 1967. While not much widely available information about her life survives online, the books that remain show a writer drawn to adventure, youth fiction, and vivid historical imagination.

Today, Grimes is remembered mainly through those digitized works, which continue to give modern readers a glimpse of a once-popular style of storytelling for children.