- Source: Mary Norton Kratt
Mary Norton Kratt (born June 7, 1937) is an American author. She focuses on Southern history.
Early life
She was born in West Virginia. She attended Charlotte Central High School, Agnes Scott College and University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she received a degree in English literature.
Career
Kratt has published 17 books of poetry, history and biography, mostly pertaining to the Charlotte area. She wrote two walking tours of uptown Charlotte and works closely with the Levine Museum of the New South.
Kratt served on the Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Recognition
She twice won the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series. In 1994, she won the Ethel Fortner Award from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. In 2000, she won the North Carolina Poetry Society Brockman-Campbell Book Award.
Selected works
Legacy the Myers Park Story ISBN 978-0318221922
Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History ISBN 978-1596296015
Southern Is... ISBN 978-1561451135
Remembering Charlotte: Postcards for a New South City, 1905–1950 ISBN 978-0807848715
A Bird in the House; The Story of Wing Haven Garden ISBN 978-0962869204
Marney ISBN 978-0962869204
Charlotte: Spirit of the New South ISBN 978-0895870957
My Dear Miss Eva ISBN 978-0962594700
A Little Charlotte Scrapbook
On The Steep Side
New South Women: Twentieth Century Women of Charlotte, North Carolina ISBN 978-0895872500
Small Potatoes ISBN 978-1879934405
The imaginative spirit: Literary heritage of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ISBN 978-0962059704
The Only Thing I Fear is a Cow and a Drunken Man ISBN 978-0932112293
References
External links
Mary Norton Kratt papers, J Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte