Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith is a journalist, author, and public speaker from Macon, Georgia, who majored in journalism at the University of Georgia and worked as a reporter, editor, and book columnist for the Anderson Independent Mail in South Carolina for over twenty years. She specializes in historical nonfiction, particularly strong women and Prohibition-era stories in the South, with notable books including The Gatekeeper, a biography of FDR's secretary Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, and Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, which won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award. She also co-authors the Missy LeHand Mysteries historical fiction series and lives in Anderson, S.C., with her husband.