[2] Katherine was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, to Presbyterian minister William Reed and his wife, Margaret McKnight.
[3][4] By the early 1910s, she was employed as a journalist and was active in the fight to get women the right to vote.
[5] She traveled the country organizing conventions, publishing stories, and serving as executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Women's Suffrage Association.
Titles included Lorna Doone, Greater Than Fame, and Let's Elope.
[3][6] She died on July 1, 1922, at her brother's home on Long Island, after an illness of about a year.