Katharine Newlin Burt
BornSeptember 6, 1882
Fishkill Landing, New York
DiedJune 1977
Princeton, New Jersey
Occupation(s)Novelist and silent film scenarist
Years active1912–1975
SpouseMaxwell Struthers Burt (m. 1912–1954)
Children2

Katharine Newlin Burt (September 6, 1882 – June 1977) was an American novelist and film scenarist. She was a prolific author of Westerns and other novels, with a publishing career that spanned more than 60 years. At least seven of Burt's published works were adapted to film, and she authored the original screen stories for two more films.

Life

Katharine Newlin Burt (right) and her husband, Maxwell Struthers Burt

Katharine Newlin was born to Thomas Shipley Newlin and Julia Maria (Onderdonk) Newlin on September 6, 1882, in Fishkill Landing, New York.[1][2] Newlin began writing short stories while in kindergarten in Munich.[3]

Newlin married writer Maxwell Struthers Burt in 1912, adding his last name to her own. The couple had one son, Nathaniel Burt (who went on to be a writer) and one daughter, Julia.[4] The Burts lived four months of the year in the eastern U.S., but spent the rest of the time at their "real home," the Bar B C Dude Ranch, a thousand-acre cattle ranch at the foot of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.[3]

Katharine Newlin Burt died in June 1977 in Princeton, New Jersey[1] and was buried in Jackson, Wyoming.[5]

Critical legacy

Norris Wilson Yates notes that Burt wrote both formula and non-formula Westerns, and argues that she "excels in evoking Western landscape as a force in the lives and feelings of her characters."[6] Victoria Lamont writes that Burt's The Branding Iron participates in a "radical, though still deeply problematic, feminism," attention to which should change the way we think about "the importance of western mythology in women's literary history." The Branding Iron, along with two other women's Westerns, "participate in a shift in Anglo-American feminist discourse as American feminism decoupled from the abolition movement and became racially divided."[7]

A 1921 magazine advertisement for Snowblind, highlighting Katharine Newlin Burt's status as author of the source material

Novels

  • Penelope Intrudes (Cassell, Limited, 1912)[8]
  • The Branding Iron (Grosset and Dunlap, 1919)
  • Hidden Creek (Houghton Mifflin, 1920)
  • The Red Lady (Houghton Mifflin, 1920)
  • Snowblind (Houghton Mifflin, 1921)
  • "Q" (Houghton Mifflin, 1922)
  • Quest (Houghton, 1925)
  • The Summons
  • The Grey Parrot (1926)
  • Cock's Feathers (Houghton Mifflin, 1928)
  • A Man's Own Country (Houghton Mifflin, 1931)
  • The Tall Ladder (1932)
  • Beggars All (Houghton Mifflin, 1933)
  • This Woman and This Man (Scribners, 1934)
  • When Beggars Choose (1937)
  • The Safe Road (1938)
  • Men of Moon Mountain (Macrae Smith, 1938)
  • If Love I Must (Macrae Smith, 1939)
  • Captain Millet's Island (Macrae Smith, 1944)
  • Close Pursuit (Scribners, 1947)
  • Lady in the Tower (Dell, 1947)
  • Still Water (1948)
  • Strong Citadel (Scribners, 1949)
  • Escape from Paradise (1952)
  • Scotland's Burning (1953)
  • Smarty (Funk & Wagnalls, 1965)
  • One Silver Spur (Funk & Wagnalls, 1968)
  • Lost Isobel (Signet, 1968)
  • Ree (Signet, 1973)
  • A Very Tender Love (1975)
Katharine Newlin Burt (seated, second from left) with Samuel Goldwyn (standing, third from left) and six other "famous authors he won to the screen"

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (26 July 2017), Katharine Newlin Burt, 1977; Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center, Idaho Falls; FHL microfilm 100,464,628.
  2. ↑ "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (22 December 2014), (M1490) Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 > Roll 72, 1908 Sep-Oct, certificate no 62539-63438 > image 626 of 1013; citing NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)
  3. 1 2 Sunset. 1921-04-01. p. 47.
  4. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 4 April 2019), Katharine N Burt in household of Maxwell S Burt, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States; citing ED 46, sheet 1B, line 92, family 26, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1053; FHL microfilm 1,821,053.
  5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (14 December 2017), Katharine Newlin Burt, 1977; Burial, Jackson, Teton, Wyoming, United States of America, Aspen Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 183334798, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com .
  6. ↑ Yates, Norris Wilson (1995). Gender and Genre: An Introduction to Women Writers of Formula Westerns, 1900-1950. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826315694.
  7. ↑ Lamont, Victoria (2016). Westerns: A Women's History. U of Nebraska Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780803290334.
  8. ↑ Burt, Katharine Newlin (1912). Penelope Intrudes. Cassell, Limited.
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