Kate Jordan

Kate Jordan (23 December 1862 – 20 June 1926) was an Irish-American novelist and playwright.

Early life and education Kate Jordan was born in Dublin on 23 December 1862. She was the daughter of the academic, Michael James Jordan, and Catherine Jordan (née Mulvey). She had three sisters and three brothers. The family emigrated to the United States when Jordan was 3, settling in New York City, with her father taking a position as a professor.

Jordan was educated at private schools and by tutors at home, beginning to write at a young age. A teacher warned her mother that "either she will one day write fiction or she is one of those natural liars to whom truth is unattractive." She published her first story at age 12, encouraged by her father. Career Her stories and poems were published in numerous journals and magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, McClure's, and The Century Magazine. She built up a large readership, with one of her most popular pieces, The Kiss of Gold appearing in October 1892 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Jordan wrote and published a number of novels, mostly melodramas but well received critically. Trouble-the-House her last novel from 1921 has autobiographical details. Her 1905 novel, Time, the Comedian, was adapted as a silent film by Fanny and Frederick Hatton which starred Mae Busch. Against the Winds (1919) The Next Corner (1921)