Random Gay Trivia

Katharine Lee Bates, best known for writing the lyrics to the song American the Beautiful, also wrote six volumns of poetry, textbooks, and children's fiction. Her twenty-five year romance with Katharine Coman ended with Coman's death, and Bates expressed her grief through a book of forty-seven sonnets, Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance, which was published after Bates died in 1929.