Author kathleen norris biography

Prolific American novelist and short-story writer.Born Kathleen Thompson in San Francisco, California, on July 16, 1880; died on January 18, 1966, in San Francisco; daughter of James Alden Thompson (a bank manager) and Josephine (Moroney) Thompson; studied briefly at the University of California, Berkeley; married Charles Norris (an editor and writer), in 1909 (died 1954); children: Frank (b. 1910); Josephine and Gertrude (twins, b. 1912, died in infancy); adopted four others, including her sister's three orphaned children.

Selected writings:

Mother (1911); The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne (1913); Saturday's Child (1914); The Story of Julia Page (1915); Undertow (1917); Josslyn's Wife (1918); Sisters (1922); Certain People of Importance (1922); The Callahans and the Murphys (1924); Noon (autobiography, 1925); Hildegarde (1926); The Foolish Virgin (1928); Margaret Yorke (1930); Second Hand Wife (1932); Wife for Sale (1933); H