Katie Lee (October 23, 1919 – November 1, 2017) was an American folk singer, actress, writer, photographer and environmental activist.

"[2] Her obituary in The New York Times states, "Ms. Lee never forgave the builders of the Glen Canyon Dam and said the only thing that prevented her from blowing it up was that she did not know how.

Lee's early folk music albums, Songs of Couch and Consultation (1957) and Life Is Just a Bed of Neuroses (1960), parody the rising popularity of psychoanalysis at the time.

[7] Sandstone Seduction, a 2004 memoir, relates Lee's continuing love affair with desert rivers and canyons, and discusses her Lady Godiva-style bicycle ride through downtown Jerome, Arizona, where she lived.

[2][10] In September and October 1955, Tad Nichols, Frank Wright, and she traveled through and documented parts of the canyon that later were to be submerged.

She wrote that she "...went to work for the war effort at Davis Monthan Field, married a shavetail in '42, got pregnant, had a son, [and] got divorced in '45."

There are pictures of Katie and a young "Ronnie" in the NAU Cline Library Colorado Plateau digital archives.

She met her "last and best husband",[citation needed] Edwin Carl "Brandy" Brandelius, Jr. — to whom her book Sandstone Seduction is dedicated — on a trip to Baja California.

[2] Brandy was a war veteran, a race car driver, announcer, and good friend of Turk Murphy.

Lee noted Brandy as the prime influence on finishing and publishing her first book, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle.

[15][10] Lee's partner, Joey van Leeuwen, whom she met in 1979 in Australia while on a round-the-world trip, died by suicide the day after her death.

Utah Phillips praised Katie Lee and Songs of Couch and Consultation on the 1996 album, The Past Didn't Go Anywhere on the track, "Half a Ghost Town".