Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith is a former newspaper reporter and editor who now spends her time writing and speaking about history. She is the author of The Gatekeeper, the first biography of FDR’s private secretary and de facto White House Chief of Staff Marguerite A. LeHand, and Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, which won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award from the National Independent Book Publishers Association, and two books about Prohibition in the South: Baptists and Bootleggers and Methodists and Moonshiners. Kathryn lives in Anderson, S.C. with her husband, Leo.
