author
Kathleen Thompson Norris
1880–1966
A hugely popular American novelist and newspaper columnist, she wrote stories that brought domestic life, moral choices, and everyday emotions to a wide early-20th-century readership. For decades, her novels were among the best-known bestselling fiction in the United States.
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
Sisters
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Undertow
by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Saturday's Child
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 one of the most widely read and highest-paid women writers in the United States. She built her reputation through novels, short fiction, and newspaper and magazine writing, creating stories that connected with large popular audiences.
Her work often centered on family life, marriage, duty, faith, and social respectability, which helped make her a familiar name to readers across the first half of the 20th century. She was married to fellow writer Charles Gilman Norris, and her long career stretched from the 1910s into the 1950s.
Although she is less discussed today than some of her contemporaries, Norris was a major literary presence in her time, with an extraordinary reach and lasting importance in American popular fiction.