![]() ![]() For some years, she was convinced that her mother did not know that she read by flashlight under the covers at night.ĭuring her senior year at Coral Gables High School, Katherine was named a regional semi-finalist in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search: an accomplishment that helped her win a four-year science scholarship to the University of Miami, where she graduated with a B.S. ![]() She soon went on to read out that school library and also the local public library. By third grade, she had successfully lobbied for permission to check out books usually reserved for fifth and sixth graders, such as The Black Stallion. Katherine did not find elementary school very challenging. She says she cannot remember a time when she could not read. On her second birthday, Katherine is told, she recited the entire poem, "Little Orphan Annie", for her grandparents without hesitation or error. Her father worked as a radar specialist for Bendix Avionics. Her mother worked in university administration, then as a legal secretary, and also taught English as a Second Language in the Peace Corps in Venezuela. Katherine Kurtz was born in Coral Gables, Florida during a hurricane on October 18. ![]()
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