Background
Gerould, Katharine Fullerton was born on February 6, 1879 in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Bradford Morton (Doctor of Divinity) and Julia M. (Ball) Fullerton.
Gerould, Katharine Fullerton was born on February 6, 1879 in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Bradford Morton (Doctor of Divinity) and Julia M. (Ball) Fullerton.
Bachelor of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1900, Master of Arts, 1901.
After a private education in Mission Folsom"s School and in France, she entered Radcliffe College in 1896. There, she was awarded an Bachelor of Arts in 1900 then an Master of Arts in 1901. Her 1900 story "The Poppies in the Wheat" was selected by The Century Magazine as the best short story by an undergraduate.
She was appointed to Bryn Mawr College in 1901, where she taught English composition for a decade.
She became noted as a prominent writer of the short story and one of the nation"s foremost essayists. Between 1902 and 1939, she was a published author with regular works appearing in Century, Atlantic Monthly, Harper"s and Scribner"son
Between 1911 and 1929, she published nearly fifty short stories, with half appearing during the years 1913–1917. Many of her stories appeared in the collections Vain Observations (1914), The Great Tradition (1915), and Valiant Dust (1922).
Her stories also appeared in the annual The Best Short Stories during the years 1917, 1920–1922, and 1925.
Less successful were her novels, A Change of Air (1917), Lost Valley (1922), Conquistador (1923), and The Light That Never Was (1931). Her collected essays were published as Modes and Morals (1920) and Ringside Seats (1937). She also published two travel volumes: Hawaii: Scenes and Impressions (1916) and The Aristocratic West (1925).
In 1923, she was chosen to deliver the Isaac H. Bromley Lectures at Yale University on the topic of "The Modern Short Story and the Modern Novel".
After a bout of illness lasting more than two years, she died of lung cancer in Princeton, New Jersey. Her body was cremated.
"The Æsthetics of Conservatism," The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 130, 1922.
Married Gordon Hall Gerould, June 9, 1910. Children: Christopher, Sylvia.