Kate Larson

Kate Clifford Larson is an American historian who has dealt primarily with the U.S. slavery opponent Harriet Tubman. Your 2003 published biography Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero was the first Tubman biography for more than sixty years, which was not written specifically for a young audience. Kate Larson is also an advisor to the Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study of the National Park Service and a member of the Advisory Board of the Underground Railroad in Delaware.

Kate Larson received his PhD from the University of New Hampshire. Today, she teaches at Simmons College in Massachusetts.

Works

• Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003)