Kathleen Elizabeth George (born July 7, 1943) is an American professor and writer best known for her series of crime novels set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[2] She was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Pittsburgh: B.A.
[2] Between 1968 and 1998 She directed numerous plays for Carlow College (where she taught), ‘the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a Professor, and The Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, a professional summer company at Pitt.
She teaches playwriting, dramatic literature, and sometimes creative writing at Pitt.
Her husband was writer Hilary Masters,[1] a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University and son of Edgar Lee Masters, until his death on June 14, 2015.