*Thompson Norris, Kathleen: * - Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American author and newspaper writer who was born July 16, 1880, and died January 18, 1966. She was one of the best-known and highest-paid women writers in the US for almost fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris wrote a lot. He finishe...

*Thompson Norris, Kathleen: * - Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American author and newspaper writer who was born July 16, 1880, and died January 18, 1966. She was one of the best-known and highest-paid women writers in the US for almost fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris wrote a lot. He finished 93 books, and many of them were big hits. A lot of famous magazines of the time ran her stories, such as The Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal, and Woman's Home Companion. Norris used her stories to promote family and moral ideals, like how important it is to serve others, be a good mother, and keep your marriage holy. Jane Thompson Norris was born on July 16, 1880, in San Francisco, California. It was Josephine (née Moroney) and James Alden Thompson who raised her. They both died when she was 19. Since she was the oldest, she was in charge of the whole family and had to work. She first got a job in a department store, then quickly moved on to an accounting office, and finally ended up at the Mechanic's Institute Library. She started writing short stories when she went to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1905 to take a creative writing class.