author
Katharine Newlin Burt
1882–1977
A prolific American novelist and screenwriter, she spent more than six decades writing Westerns, romances, and other fiction, with several of her stories making their way to the screen. Her work is often tied to the landscapes and ranching life she knew firsthand in Wyoming.
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 1882 in Fishkill Landing, New York, Katharine Newlin Burt became a remarkably productive American writer whose career stretched across much of the 20th century. She wrote novels, short fiction, and screen stories, and she is especially remembered for Westerns and frontier fiction.
She and her husband, the writer Maxwell Struthers Burt, were associated with ranch life in Wyoming, an experience that helped shape the settings and atmosphere of some of her work. Several of her books were adapted for film during the silent era, and she also wrote original stories for the screen.
Burt continued publishing over a long career and died in 1977. Today she is remembered as a versatile popular author who brought both drama and lived-in detail to stories of the American West.