Kate Larson (historian)

Kate Clifford Larson is a bestselling author, American historian and Harriet Tubman scholar. Her 2003 biography of Harriet Tubman, Bound for the Promised Land was one of the first non-juvenile Tubman biographies published in six decades. Kate Clifford Larson is the prize winning author of several other critically acclaimed biographies, including: Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer (Oxford, 2021) which received a starred *Kirkus review and named one of the Best Biographies of 2021.; Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016 from Massachusetts Center for the Book, was the featured cover story for People Magazine, September 14, 2015, and named one of People Magazine’s top ten books for 2015; The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Basic, 2008); and Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works, Rowman & Littlefield, June 2022, which received a Library Journal Starred* Review and named one of the Best Reference Books of 2022. An award-winning historical consultant, she has worked on numerous public history initiatives for local, regional, state, and National Park Service projects. She has appeared on local, national, and international media outlets, mainstream media and cable networks, podcasts, and CBS Sunday Morning. Her next book, Ethel and Bobby: Inside the Marriage That Shaped a Nation is due out from Little, Brown & Company in 2027.