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Kathleen Thompson Norris
1880–1966
A bestselling American novelist of the early 20th century, she wrote popular stories about family life, marriage, and social expectations. Her books reached a huge readership and helped make her one of the most widely read women writers of her era.
14 Audiobooks
The Beloved Woman
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
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
The Story of Julia Page
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Saturday's Child
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The black Flemings
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Harriet and the Piper
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Martie, the Unconquered
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Sisters
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Mother: A Story
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Treasure
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Heart of Rachael
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Undertow
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
About the author
Born in San Francisco in 1880, she built a remarkable career as a novelist and magazine writer during the early decades of the 20th century. Her fiction often centered on domestic life, romance, and the pressures placed on women, themes that connected strongly with a broad popular audience.
She was married to fellow writer Charles Norris, and her name became especially associated with mainstream American magazine fiction and bestselling novels. At the height of her career, she was known as an extraordinarily successful commercial author whose work reflected both the comforts and tensions of middle-class life.
She died in 1966, leaving behind a large body of fiction that captures the values, hopes, and conflicts of her time. Readers interested in popular literary culture, women’s lives, and American social history still find her work revealing and engaging.