Katharine Brush (August 15, 1902 – June 10, 1952) was an American newspaper columnist, short-story writer, and novelist. In the era of the 1920s-1930s, she was considered one of the country's most widely-read fiction writers, as well as one of the highest paid women writers of her time; several of her books were best-sellers, and several others were made into movies. Early years Katharine Brush was born Katharine Louise Ingham in Middletown, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Charles S. Ingham, an educator, and his wife Clara. Young Katharine did not attend college; directly after graduating from Centenary Collegiate Institute, a New Jersey boarding school, at age 16, she began working as a movie columnist for the Boston Evening Traveller. She married Thomas Stewart Brush when she was eighteen; he was the son of Louis H. Brush of Brush-Moore Newspapers. After the marriage, she moved to Ohio with him. Literary career Brush's writing first attracted attention in the 1920s. During this time, multiple short stories of hers were published in serial magazines like College Humor and Cosmopolitan; the best known of these were collected in a book titled Night Club (1929); the title story first appeared in Harper's Magazine in September 1927. Brush's works were characterized by her narrative style and wit: she was praised for being a keen observer of contemporary American life, a writer skilled at presenting the foibles of relationships in a realistic manner. Her story "Him and Her" (published in Collier's Weekly March 16, 1929) was an O. Henry Award winner named "Best Short Short" of 1929, and in 1932, she was again named a Best Short Story writer, by the O. Henry Memorial Committee. She also received honorable mentions for her short story "Night Club" (1927); her 1931 story "Good Wednesday", which also appeared in Harper's; as well as for a 1932 short story, "Football Girl", which was published in College Humor in October 1931. During the mid-1920s, in addition to writing short stories and beginning a novel, she also wrote syndicated columns. Among her columns in the early-to-mid-1920s were occasional articles about sports, including boxing, and college football. And during 1925 and 1926, she covered the World Series for several newspapers in Ohio. Brush's first novel, Glitter was published in 1926, to favorable reviews. Her novel Young Man of Manhattan was named the 9th best-selling novel of 1930 by Publishers Weekly and later that