The Women of Prohibition: Women had major roles in Prohibition, the period when it was illegal to buy alcohol in the United States, lasting from 1920 until the end of 1933. The women’s temperance movement brought it into being, a female assistant attorney general was its chief enforcer, and a New York society woman led the movement to repeal it.
Kathryn Smith: Kathryn Smith is a native of Macon, Georgia who grew up in Atlanta and Clemson. After graduating from D.W. Daniel High School and the University of Georgia, Kathryn worked at daily newspapers for 17 years as a reporter and editor. She went into nonprofit management work after that, concluding her career as executive director of the Cancer Association of Anderson, which she helped found. Since 2012, Kathryn has been a full-time writer and speaker, most notably of the book “The Gatekeeper,” the first biography of Marguerite A. LeHand, which was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize in biography in 2017. She lives in Anderson, S.C. with her husband, Leo.
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