author
Katharine Haviland-Taylor
1888–1941
A prolific American storyteller of small-town life, she moved easily between novels, short fiction, plays, and screenwriting. Her work reached readers, theater audiences, and early filmgoers alike, with a warm, accessible style that suited popular fiction of the early twentieth century.
3 Audiobooks
A modern trio in an old town
by Katharine Haviland-Taylor
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
by Katharine Haviland-Taylor
Natalie Page
by Katharine Haviland-Taylor
About the author
Born in Mankato, Minnesota, Katharine Haviland-Taylor was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter active in the first half of the twentieth century. Reliable sources agree that she wrote fiction for a wide audience and also worked across magazines, the stage, and film, building a career that stretched well beyond the novel alone.
Her first published novel was Cecilia of the Pink Roses in 1917, and later works included Back Roads in 1939. She is also associated with screen work including One Man's Journey and A Man to Remember, showing how her storytelling could travel from page to screen.
Some sources list her birth year as 1891 rather than 1888, so that detail is not completely consistent across the material I found. What is clear is that she was a versatile, commercially successful writer whose stories of everyday American life found readers in several different formats.