Katharine Newlin Burt (September 6, 1882 – June 1977) was an American novelist and film scenarist.

[4] The Burts lived four months of the year in the eastern U.S., but spent the rest of the time at their "real home," the Bar B C Dude Ranch, a thousand-acre cattle ranch at the foot of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

[3] Katharine Newlin Burt died in June 1977 in Princeton, New Jersey[1] and was buried in Jackson, Wyoming.

"[6] Victoria Lamont writes that Burt's The Branding Iron participates in a "radical, though still deeply problematic, feminism," attention to which should change the way we think about "the importance of western mythology in women's literary history."

The Branding Iron, along with two other women's Westerns, "participate in a shift in Anglo-American feminist discourse as American feminism decoupled from the abolition movement and became racially divided.