Katharine "Kate" Thatcher Clugston (1892, Whitley County, Indiana – 1985, Chebeague Island, Maine) was a playwright,[1] poet, and English teacher.
After graduating from high school in Indiana, Kate Clugston went to Wells College, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1914.
Her play Finished was produced at New Haven to excellent reviews but failed, after eight performances, in New York under the title These Days.
In November 1928 her play These Days, which was the Broadway debut of Katharine Hepburn[2] in a supporting role, failed in New York but eventually served as part of the basis of the screenplay for the 1934 film Finishing School.
Her play The Head of the Family was adapted for the 1934 film The Last Gentleman starring George Arliss and Charlotte Henry.