Kate Clifford Larson

Kate Clifford Larson is a bestselling author of critically acclaimed biographies including “Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman,” “Portrait of an American Hero,” and “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter.” Her latest work, “Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer,” tells the remarkable story of one of America’s most important civil rights leaders of the 20th century. Larson is a Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center Visiting Scholar.

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured despite suffering decades of enslavement and second-class citizenship.
By Kate Clifford Larson
Portrait of Harriet Tubman taken by Benjamin F. Powelson around 1868 in Auburn, New York. (Image from Library of Congress)