Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker. Bates enjoyed close links with Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she had graduated with a B.A., and later became a professor of English literature, helping to launch American literature as an academic speciality, and writing one of the first-ever college textbooks on it. She never married, possibly because she would have lost tenure if she had. Throughout her long career at Wellesley, she shared a house with her close friend and companion Katharine Coman. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Katharine Lee Bates is the 6,719th most popular writer (up from 6,779th in 2024), the 13,812th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,901st in 2019) and the 977th most popular American Writer.