author
Kathleen Carman
1875–1959
A little-known early 20th-century writer, Kathleen Carman is remembered today for “The Debt,” a short story included in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series. Surviving records suggest she was born in 1875 and died in 1959, leaving behind only a faint but intriguing literary trace.
1 Audiobook
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
About the author
Kathleen Carman appears to have published at least one notable short story, “The Debt,” which was included in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series, a collection connected with work that had appeared in The Atlantic. That places her among the many magazine-era writers whose fiction reached readers through anthologies rather than long runs of famous books.
Reliable biographical information about her is scarce. Library and public-domain catalog records confirm her as an author, while memorial records identify a Kathleen Charlotte Carman Dodge (1875–1959); this may be the same person, but because the available sources are limited, that identification should be treated with caution.
That uncertainty is part of what makes her interesting. Carman belongs to the large group of once-published authors whose work survives more clearly than their life story, offering modern readers a glimpse of literary history beyond the best-known names.