author
Kathleen Thompson Norris
1880–1966
One of the most widely read American women writers of the first half of the 20th century, she built a huge audience with emotionally direct novels about family life, love, marriage, and social expectations. Her stories were so popular that several were adapted for film, helping carry her name far beyond the printed page.
14 Audiobooks
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Harriet and the Piper
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Story of Julia Page
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 Heart of Rachael
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Martie, the Unconquered
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Undertow
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Sisters
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Saturday's Child
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Mother: A Story
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Treasure
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The black Flemings
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Beloved Woman
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
About the author
Born in San Francisco in 1880, Kathleen Thompson Norris became a bestselling novelist and newspaper columnist whose career stretched for decades. Before her writing fame, she worked in California after her parents died, and she later married writer and editor Charles Gilman Norris in 1909.
Her breakthrough came with Mother in 1911, and she went on to publish a remarkable number of novels, short stories, and magazine pieces. Readers were drawn to her clear, accessible style and to the way she wrote about domestic life, moral choices, and the pressures placed on women and families.
Though she is less discussed today than some of her contemporaries, Norris was a major popular author in her time and one of the highest-paid women writers in the United States for many years. She died in San Francisco in 1966, leaving behind a large body of fiction that captures the values, anxieties, and everyday dramas of early-20th-century America.