Kathryn Forbes
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Kathryn Forbes (March 20, 1908 - May 15, 1966) was an American writer.
Forbes' best known work was Mama's Bank Account, her memoir of life with her Norwegian immigrant parents and siblings in San Francisco in the early 20th Century. Her heartwarming stories focused on their simple aspirations and often difficult struggles, dreams and determinations, happiness and sorrows.
Forbes' book served as the inspiration for John Van Druten's 1944 play I Remember Mama, which subsequently became a 1948 film, a popular long-running television series, and a Broadway musical.
Forbes is interred in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma in San Mateo County, just south of the city where she was born and raised.
