Katharine Scherman

Katharine Scherman is a born and bred New Yorker who has worked as a writer and editor for the Saturday Review, Life and the Book-of-the-Month Club. She has written two World Landmark Books, The Slave Who Freed Haiti and Catherine the Great, as well as one of the first Legacy Books, The Sword of Siegfried.

Miss Scherman has traveled a great deal. She has visited most of Western Europe, including Russia, and has made one six-week sojourn to the northern end of human civilization in the Canadian Arctic. Her other interests include playing chamber music and mountain climbing. She lives with her husband, Axel Rosin, and their two daughters in a house perched high above the Hudson River on the edge of New York City.

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Catherine the Great
World Landmark #29
by Katharine Scherman, illustrator by Pranas Lapé
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Slave Who Freed Haiti
World Landmark #15
by Katharine Scherman, illustrator by Adolf Dehn
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
William Tell
A Legacy Book
by Katharine Scherman, illustrated by Georges Schreiber
from Random House
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)