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- Birth nameKathryn Cavarly Hulme
- Kathryn Hulme was born on July 6, 1900 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was a writer, known for The Nun's Story (1959). She was married to Leonard D. Geldert. She died on August 25, 1981 in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
- SpouseLeonard D. Geldert(August 25, 1925 - 1928) (divorced)
- The central character of her book, "The Nun's Story", was based on Hulme's personal friend and business partner Marie Louise Habets, a former Belgian nun.
- Was deputy director of Wildflecken, a refugee center in Bavaria, from 1945 to 1950, helping to relocate and reunite thousands of families, mostly of Polish origin.
- Hulme was an expatriate American writer in Paris before World War II. During the war she worked as a welder in a California shipyard. She helped relocate hundreds of thousands of displaced persons as an official of a United Nations relief organization in postwar Europe. She wrote nine books between 1928 and 1974.
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