Katherine Mansfield was a famous New Zealand writer known for revolutionizing the short story genre in English. She published her first story at age 9 and had a career as a professional musician before focusing fully on writing. Though she lived only 34 years, Mansfield achieved great acclaim as one of the most talented modern short story writers, with works like "The Garden Party", "Miss Brill", and "The Doll's House" cementing her reputation before her early death.

1. KATHERINE MANSFIELD

2. New Zealand’s most famous writer
Born14 October 1888 andDied9 January
1923
“Enna Blake” First story published – 9years
professional musician
She was a writer of short stories, poetry,
letters, journals, and reviews, and changed
the way the short story was written in the
English language.
She was a rebel and a modernist who lived
her short life of 34 years to the full.

3. Even before she died at the age
of thirty-four she had achieved a
reputation as one of the most
talented writers of the modern
short story
Garden Party, Miss Brill, The
Doll’s House

4. “I imagine I was
always writing.
Twaddle it was, too.
But better far write
twaddle or anything,
anything, than nothing
at all.”