author
Katharine Newlin Burt
1882–1977
A prolific American novelist and screenwriter, she brought the drama of the American West to readers for more than sixty years. Several of her stories also reached the screen, giving her work a life beyond the page.
4 Audiobooks
The Red Lady
by Katharine Newlin Burt
Hidden Creek
by Katharine Newlin Burt
Snow-Blind
by Katharine Newlin Burt
The Branding Iron
by Katharine Newlin Burt
About the author
Born in Fishkill Landing, New York, in 1882, Katharine Newlin Burt became an American novelist and film scenarist whose career stretched across much of the 20th century. She is especially remembered for Western fiction, though she wrote more broadly as well.
Her life in the West helped shape her writing. She and her husband, the writer Maxwell Struthers Burt, were associated with ranch life in Wyoming, and that experience gave many of her stories a strong sense of place.
Burt was a remarkably productive writer, publishing for more than sixty years. At least several of her works were adapted for film, which helped carry her storytelling to new audiences, and she remained an active literary presence well into later life before her death in 1977.