biography
| name: |
Bates, Katherine Lee
|
| sex:
| female
|
| lived:
| (1859–1929)
|
| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA. Her father died soon after her birth, and her family moved to Wellesley (then Grantville), MA, where she was schooled locally and graduated from Wellesley (1880 BA; 1891 MA). She taught high-school children for five years before teaching English at Wellesley (1885–1925). She wrote travel books, children's stories, textbooks, and poetry, as in America the Dream (1930). Her best-known work is the poem, ‘America the Beautiful’ (1895), written after a visit to Pikes Peak and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). Set to the music of Samuel Ward, the poem continues to rival the national anthem in popularity. |
|
|
