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.
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.