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Katherine Mansfield (nome di battesimo Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp) (Wellington, 14 ottobre 1888 – Fontainebleau, 9 gennaio 1923) è stata una scrittrice neozelandese.
Katherine Mansfield è ampiamente considerata una delle (More) migliori scrittrici di racconti del suo periodo. Alcuni dei suoi racconti, compresi Miss Brill, Prelude e lavori successivi come The Fly, sono raccolti in antologie di storie brevi. Mansfield per i suoi racconti prende ispirazione dal grande scrittore russo Anton Čechov, e da quest’ultimo riprende alcuni temi e tecniche che poi fa propri nella sua scrittura. Il fatto che Katherine sia morta relativamente giovane ha aggiunto prestigio alla sua eredità.

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When (More) she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. In 1917 she was diagnosed with extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.
The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first world war.

The Garden Party and Other Stories is a 1922 collection of short stories by author Katherine Mansfield.
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who (More) was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain when she was 19 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. Among her best-known stories are “The Garden Party”, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” and “The Fly”. During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the age of 34.