Kathleen Hale OBE (24 May 1898 – 26 January 2000) was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author.
She worked for some time as Augustus John's secretary while she developed a wide circle of friends, including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
[4] Hale spent time in Paris in 1923, where she met the couple Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines.
[3] Kathleen Hale married Douglas McClean, a young doctor working in medical research, and they settled in Hertfordshire.
She was interviewed by Sue Lawley and chose the Catalan song "Cobla La Principal de Peralada [ca]" as well as pieces by Anton Karas, Gertrude Lawrence and Scott Joplin as her favourite records, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time as her choice of book, and a djellaba made from golden cloth as her luxury item.