Katharine Brush

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Katharine Brush (August 15, 1902 - June 10, 1952) was a United States author. Her short story Birthday Party appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Literature Exam; the story was originally published in The New Yorker's Fiction section in 1946. Brush's Connecticut home was featured on an episode of HGTV's "If Walls could Talk".

According to her autobiographical collection of works, This Is On Me (1940) OCLC 26043754, Katharine Brush was born Katharine Ingham in Middletown, Connecticut. Ms. Brush did not attend college, but instead began working as a columnist for the Boston Traveler. During her career she published multiple short stories in serial magazines like College Humor and Cosmopolitan; the best known of these were collected in a book titled Night Club (1929). Brush's works are characterized by her involving narrative style and wit.

Her works include:

  • Glitter,
  • Young Man of Manhattan (1930)
  • Mannequin,
  • Red Headed Woman, (1931), which was made into a movie starring Jean Harlow
  • This Man and This Woman, and
  • This Is On Me (1940).

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