Katherine Mansfield, the acclaimed New Zealand-born author, died at the young age of 34 on January 9th, 1923. She published her first short story in 1911 and quickly gained favor with the literary world, going on to become one of the most highly respected short story writers in the English language. Her believable characters and sophisticated sequences of feeling and incident rejected conventional plot and formula-based story writing. Katherine was living abroad in France when she died of tuberculosis, and is now remembered for her dedication and influence on the development of the modern short story. She is survived by those that read and appreciate her work.