- Kathryn Forbes
Kathryn McLean "née" Anderson (
March 20 ,1908 -May 15 ,1966 ), best known by her pen name Kathryn Forbes, was an American writer andmemoir ist.Life
Kathryn Anderson was born in
San Francisco in 1909. Her grandmother had emigrated to California from Norway in the late 19th century; both of Anderson's parents were native-born Americans.Forbes died in San Francisco in 1966. She is interred in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma in San Mateo County, just south of the city where she was born and raised.
Work
Forbes was a radio scriptwriter and later began publishing short stories in national magazine. Her best known work was "Mama's Bank Account", a fictionalized memoir about a Norwegian family in 1920s
San Francisco . Her heartwarming stories focused on their simple aspirations and often difficult struggles, dreams and determinations, happiness and sorrows.Forbes' book served as the inspiration for
John Van Druten 's 1944 play "I Remember Mama ", which subsequently became a 1948 film, a popular long-runningtelevision series as well as a Broadway musical.In 1947, she published another novel, "Transfer Point", regarding the daughter of divorced parents. Unlike "Mama's Bank Account," for which she drew on the experiences of her Norwegian-born grandmother, the later novel was closer to Forbes' real-life childhood.
External links
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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5314 Kathryn Forbes' grave] in Colma
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