Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was a prolific American writer, college professor, scholar, and social activist. Although she published volumes of poetry, travel books, essays, children's books, books for young adults,[1][2] and editions of many earlier writers' works, today Bates is primarily remembered as the author of "America the Beautiful".More