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:''For the contemporary poet/essayist of the same name (b. 1947), see Kathleen Norris (poet)'' Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 – January 18, 1966) was a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the ''Atlantic'', ''The American Magazine'', ''McClure's'', ''Everybody's'', ''Ladies' Home Journal'' and ''Woman's Home Companion'', and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood, and the importance of service to others. ==Life and career== Norris was born and died in San Francisco, California. When she was 19 both her parents died, and as the oldest sibling she became effectively the head of a large family. She had to become a breadwinner, and worked in a department store followed by an accounting office and then the Mechanic's Institute Library. She began writing short stories, and in 1905 enrolled in a creative writing program at the University of California, Berkeley. In September 1906 the San Francisco Call, which had published a few of her stories, hired her to write a society column. In the course of that work she met Charles Gilman Norris (whose late older brother was the famous novelist Frank Norris), and they soon fell in love. He moved to New York to be art editor of The American Magazine. After eight months of daily correspondence and some improvements in her family's financial situation, she joined him there and they were married in April 1909. She resumed writing short stories, which began to appear in newspapers and then magazines starting in 1910. Charles took on a lifelong role as Kathleen's literary agent, and also took care of many household management roles as she became increasingly successful as a writer. Shortly after becoming a new mother, she wrote her first novel, ''Mother.'' It started as a short story in The American Magazine in 1911. A publisher asked her to expand it into a novelette, which became a national sensation and earned the praise of Theodore Roosevelt for its celebration of large families. A devout Catholic, she wrote the book in part as a commentary against birth control, which was rapidly influencing women's attitudes about motherhood. Her 1914 novel ''Saturday's Child'' received a positive, lengthy review from William Dean Howells, who remarked on her sensitivity to class issues. Norris became involved in various social causes, including women's suffrage, Prohibition, pacifism, and organizations to benefit children and the poor. Many of her novels were made into films, including ''My Best Girl'' (1927), ''The Callahans and the Murphys'' (1927), ''Passion Flower'' (1930), and ''Change of Heart'' (1934, based on the novel ''Manhattan Love Song''). Some of Norris's novels were adapted for a radio series, ''By Kathleen Norris'', making her "the first nationally famous writer to have her works brought to radio listeners as a daily serial program." The program, produced by Phillips Lord, was broadcast on CBS October 9, 1939 - September 26, 1941.〔Dunning, John. (1998). ''On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Pp. 128-129.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen Norris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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