Books with author Kathryn Forbes

......was used to bail out AIG............... Kathryn McLean née Anderson (March 20, 1908 - May 15, 1966), best known by her pen name Kathryn Forbes, was an American writer and memoirist. Her best known work was Mama's Bank Account, a fictionalized memoir about a Norwegian family in 1920s San Francisco. Her heartwarming stories focused on their simple aspirations and their often difficult struggles, dreams and determinations, happiness, and sorrows. Forbes' book served as the inspiration for John Van Druten's play I Remember Mama, which subsequently became a film, a popular long-running television series as well as a Broadway musical.

The heart-warming story of a Norwegian - American family in San Francisco - their hilarious struggles to make ends meet, their strength, courage and abiding faith - one of America's most beloved books. Millions of young Americans have grown up with the wonderful characters who began life in the book, MAMA'S BANK ACCOUNT, and then grew into a national institution, through the play, the movie, and the famous radio and television series - I REMEMBER MAMA.