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Katharine Anthony

  • “Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.”

  • “To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.”

    • Katharine Anthony,
    • in Helen Hull, ed., The Writer's Book ()

  • “Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.”

    • Katharine Anthony,
    • in Helen Hull, ed., The Writer's Book ()

  • “Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.”

    • Katharine Anthony,
    • in Helen Hull, ed., The Writer's Book ()

Katharine Anthony, U.S. writer, educator, biographer

(1877 - 1965)

Full name: Katharine Susan Anthony.