Mary Norton Kratt

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 17 books of poetry, history and biography, mostly pertaining to the Charlotte area. She wrote 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 Ethel Fortner Award from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. In 2000, her book Small Potatoes won the North Carolina Poetry Society Brockman-Campbell 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