Katherine M. Yates

Katherine Merritte Snyder Yates was a Canadian-American writer, mainly of children's books. She lived in Honolulu from 1910 to 1942.

Biography

Yates was born in Drumbo, Ontario, the daughter of Peter M. Snyder and Julia P. Turner Snyder. Katherine Snyder married American writer Ralph T. Yates in 1889. They divorced in 1910, and she lived in Honolulu from 1910 to 1942, and wrote about travel in Hawaii for National Geographic and Sunset Magazine. She died in 1951, at the age of 85, in Laguna Beach, California.

Yates wrote allegorical stories explaining Christian Science principles to young readers, though Yates also emphasized these stories "are not written primarily for children in years; but are for the little girl or boy within, who never has grown up, and never will grow up." Mary Baker Eddy recommended Yates's book On the Way There to her readers in 1904. She was a member of the National League of American Pen Women and the Authors League of America.

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