Bates, Katharine Lee

Bates, Katharine Lee

▪ American author
born Aug. 12, 1859, Falmouth, Mass., U.S.
died March 28, 1929, Wellesley, Mass.

      author and educator who wrote the text of the national hymn “America the Beautiful.”

      She was educated at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., where she taught English literature from 1885 to 1925. Among her many works are The College Beautiful and Other Poems (1887), English Religious Drama (1893), and The Pilgrim Ship (1926). Her America the Beautiful and Other Poems was published in 1911.

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