Katherine Burton | |
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Born | March 18, 1887 |
Died | September 22, 1969 | (aged 82)
Occupation(s) | Writer and social activist |
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Katherine Burton (born Katherine Kurz; 18 Mar 1887, in Lakewood, near Cleveland, Ohio;[1] died September 22, 1969) was an American Roman Catholic convert who became renowned in her post-conversion years as a religious biographer. She was also a prominent social activist campaigning for family rights, a poet and a short story writer. She was the first woman columnist in a Catholic journal.[2]