Amelia Beers Warnock

Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin (August 13, 1874 – September 7, 1956), who wrote under the pen name Katherine Hale, was a Canadian poet, critic, and short story writer.

Biography Amelia Beers Warnock was born in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1874. Her father, James Warnock, was a Scottish industrialist, and her mother, Katherine Hale Byard, was from Mobile, Alabama and a relation of Edward Everett Hale. She attended school in Galt, Ontario, including Galt Collegiate Institute, where she performed in operettas. Her work was well received and resulted in a position as Editor of Contemporary Literature with the Toronto newspaper The Mail and Empire. Already an active journalist, musician, lecturer, and critic, Hale gained popular notoriety for her war poetry during the First World War. Her first book of poetry, Grey Knitting and Other Poems, ran into four editions of a thousand each, before it had been on the market for six weeks.

She was married publisher and teacher John William Garvin, of Toronto, in 1912.