Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith is a journalist and writer with a passionate interest in American history. She has lived all her life in Georgia and South Carolina, and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia. After a seventeen-year career in daily newspaper reporting and editing, Kathryn spent another seventeen years in nonprofit management before returning to her first love of writing. The Gatekeeper was her first nationally published book and has led to hundreds of speaking engagements, during which she often impersonates Missy LeHand. She has since written another biography, two books about Prohibition in the South, and coauthored a mystery series featuring Missy LeHand as an amateur detective, sort of the Nancy Drew of the New Deal. She lives in Anderson, South Carolina, with her husband, Leo, and frequently visits her six grandchildren.