Katherine Mansfield, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Katherine Mansfield

New Zealand author

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1888

Place of Birth: Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1923

Profession: writer, diarist

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer and poet who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
At the age of 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of writers such as D.
H.
Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Mansfield was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis in 1917; the disease claimed her life at the age of 34.