What DOES KATHARINE LEE BATES
​HAVE TO SAY TO US TODAY?

learn her story 

Melinda on NPR:  Listen to  Eric Westervelt's  "All Things Considered"  piece
"Greatness Is Not A Given: 'America The Beautiful' Asks How We Can Do Better"

the woman who wrote the beloved poem  "America the Beautiful" 

​a life of DETERMINATION AND INSPIRATION

POPULAR TALKS


Celebrating the Armistice One Hundred Years Ago: Boston, the Yankee Division, and "America the Beautiful"  

Katharine as a Global Traveller

Katharine as a Patriotic American

IN THE MEDIA

  • Watch the YouTube video of my AZTV interview on the morning talk show "Sandy and Friends."
  • Listen to  my interview on “Colorado Matters” on Denver’s Colorado Public Radio. 
  • ​Watch my TV interview  on the "Daytime" show of  NBC News Channel 8 WFLA in Tampa.

Praise & Press

“How I loved this splendid biography! Melinda Ponder brings Katharine Lee Bates to life as never before. And what a fascinating, remarkable woman she was—so much more important in the history and literature of our country than I had realized.”                                          
            ~Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize historian