Mary Norton Kratt (born June 7, 1937) is an American author. She focuses on southern history.
Early life
She was born in West Virginia. She attended Charlotte Central High School, Agnes Scott College and University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she received a degree in English literature.
Career
Kratt has published seventeen books of poetry, history and biography, mostly pertaining to the Charlotte area. She swrote two walking tours of uptown Charlotte and works closely with the Levine Museum of the New South.
Kratt served on the Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council.
Recognition
She twice won the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series. In 1994 she won the Fortner Writer In Community Award from St. Andrews College. In addition she won the Brockman/Campbell Poetry Book award.
Selected works
Legacy the Myers Park Story
Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History
Southern Is... Remembering Charlotte: Postcards for a New South City, 1905–1950 A Bird in the House; The Story of Wing Haven Garden Marney Charlotte: Spirit of the New South My Dear Miss Eva A Little Charlotte Scrapbook On The Steep Side New South Women: Twentieth Century Women of Charlotte, North Carolina Small Potatoes The imaginative spirit: Literary heritage of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina The Only Thing I Fear is a Cow and a Drunken Man