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Katharine Fullerton Gerould
1879–1944
A sharp, elegant voice in early 20th-century American letters, this writer built a reputation through finely made short stories and essays that appeared in major magazines. Her work blends polished style with keen observations about manners, ideas, and everyday contradictions.
2 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, 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, 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
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 Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1879, she was educated privately in Boston and France before studying at Radcliffe College, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1900 and a master's degree in 1901. Early on, she won a Century magazine prize for her story "The Poppies in the Wheat," a sign of the literary career that followed.
She taught English and writing at Bryn Mawr College from 1901 until her marriage in 1910 to Gordon H. Gerould, a Princeton professor. Over the next decades she published widely in leading magazines including The Atlantic, Harper's, Scribner's, and Century, and brought out collections such as Vain Oblations, The Great Tradition, and Valiant Dust.
Remembered as an American writer and essayist of unusual polish, she was especially admired for short fiction marked by restraint, insight, and careful craftsmanship. Though she is less widely read today than she once was, her work still offers a vivid glimpse of the literary taste and intellectual life of her time.