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American novelist and short-story writer Kathleen Norris was born Kathleen Thompson into a wealthy family in San Francisco, CA, in 1880. Her father was a bank executive and was twice president of the famous (or infamous) Bohemian Club of San Francisco. Kathleen and her siblings were educated at the family estate in Mill Valley, CA, called "Treehaven" (later the name and setting for one of her novels) by tutors and governesses. The family's fortunes took a turn for the worse when Kathleen became a teenager, however, when her mother suddenly died of pneumonia and her father died less than a month later; the family was left almost destitute. She took a variety of jobs, including bookkeeper, schoolteacher and sales clerk. She would invent stories to tell her siblings in order to occupy their time, and to make some spare money she submitted one of them to the local newspaper, the San Francisco Argonaut, and it was accepted and published. It wasn't long before she became the society reporter for the Evening Bulletin newspaper, and spent two years as a reporter on the San Francisco Call.

In 1909 she married novelist Charles Norris, the brother of famed novelist Frank Norris. They moved to New York City, where he was art editor of the "American Magazine". She submitted a story to the "Atlantic Monthly" magazine and it was accepted. It wasn't long before she was getting stories published in a variety of different magazines, and she became a prolific writer. She and her family eventually moved back to California, settling in the town of Saratoga, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She died in 1966 at age 85.

(1924) Book: &quot;The Callahans and the Murphys&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0017730/?ref_=nmwrk">The Callahans and the Murphys (1927)</a>.

Novel: &quot;Rose of the World&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0016299/?ref_=nmwrk">Rose of the World (1925)</a>.

(1935) Novel: &quot;Beauty&#39;s Daughter&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0026769/?ref_=nmwrk">Navy Wife (1935)</a>.

(1914) Novel: &quot;Saturday&#39;s Child&quot;.

(1915) Novel: &quot;The Story of Julia Page&quot;.

(1917) Novel: &quot;Martie: The Unconquered&quot;.

(1922) Novel: &quot;Certain People of Importance&quot;.

(1926) Novel: &quot;The Black Flemings&quot; (aka &quot;Gabrielle&quot;),

(1928) Novel: &quot;The Barberry Bush&quot;.

(1928) Novel: &quot;Beauty and the Beast&quot;.

(1928) Novel: &quot;The Foolish Virgin&quot;.

(1929) Novel: &quot;Mother and Son&quot;.

(1930) Novel: &quot;Margaret Yorke&quot;.

(1930) Novel: &quot;The Lucky Lawrences&quot;.

(1931) Novel: &quot;The Love of Julia Borel&quot;.

(1931) Novel: &quot;Hands Full of Living&quot;.

(1932) Novel: &quot;The Younger Sister&quot;.

(1932) Novel: &quot;My San Francisco&quot;.

(1933) Novel: &quot;Angel in the House&quot;.

(1934) Novel: &quot;Manhattan Love Song&quot;.

(1938) Novel: &quot;Heartbroken Melody&quot;.

(1938) Short-story collection: &quot;Baker&#39;s Dozen&quot; (aka &quot;Plain People&quot;.

(1940) Novel: &quot;The World Is Like That&quot;.

Novel: &quot;Manhattan Love Song&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0024965/?ref_=nmwrk">Change of Heart (1934)</a>.

(1933) Novel: &quot;Walls of Gold&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0024745/?ref_=nmwrk">Walls of Gold (1933)</a>.

(1932) Novel: &quot;Second-Hand Wife&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0024535/?ref_=nmwrk">Second Hand Wife (1933)</a>.

Novel: &quot;Passion Flower&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0021240/?ref_=nmwrk">Passion Flower (1930)</a>.

Story: &quot;My Best Girl&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0018183/?ref_=nmwrk">My Best Girl (1927)</a>.

(1911) Novel: &quot;Mother&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0018174/?ref_=nmwrk">Mother (1927)</a>).

(1918) Novel: &quot;Josselyn&#39;s Wife&quot;. NOTE: Filmed as <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0017011/?ref_=nmwrk">Josselyn&#39;s Wife (1926)</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0190496/?ref_=nmwrk">Josselyn&#39;s Wife (1919)</a>.

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