Katharine Butler Hathaway Audiobooks

1 Audiobook

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor

About the author

Born in 1890, Katharine Butler Hathaway grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and spent much of her childhood confined to bed after developing spinal tuberculosis. She later studied at Radcliffe College, and archival and library records describe her as a writer of autobiographical work, children's stories, and poems.

She went on to build an independent life in Maine, and sources also note periods living in New York and Paris before returning to Maine in the early 1930s. Her best-known book, The Little Locksmith, was published in 1943, after her death in 1942, and tells the story of her life with unusual candor and warmth.

Hathaway's writing has endured because it does more than recount hardship: it captures curiosity, humor, and determination. That combination has helped keep The Little Locksmith in print and introduced new readers to a voice that still feels fresh and companionable.