Kathryn H. Kidd

Kathryn H. Kidd (1949 or 1950 – December 14, 2015) was an American author. Many of her books concern The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She co-wrote some of these with her husband, Clark L. Kidd, and also co-wrote a novel with Orson Scott Card.

Kidd was born in New Orleans and raised in Mandeville, Louisiana. She graduated from Brigham Young University, where she met her husband, and like him converted to Mormonism. She worked for the Deseret News and then in 1987 moved to Virginia with her husband. She was subsequently associate and managing editor of Meridian magazine until 2008, after which she continued writing for it and also for Nauvoo Times. She died on December 14, 2015.

Kidd wrote and co-wrote with her husband several non-fiction books of practical advice geared toward fellow members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These include titles such as Ward Activities for the Clueless, Food Storage for the Clueless, On My Own and Clueless: An LDS Guide to Independent Life, and A Parent's Survival Guide to the Internet. The Kidds jointly authored A Convert's Guide to Mormon Life, which won an Association of Mormon Letters Award for devotional literature. They also collaborated on a large number of articles for Meridian.

Kidd also wrote a few comedic novels about life among members of [the church, including Paradise Vue and Return to Paradise, and children's books such as The Inkeeper's Daughter.

Kidd was a longtime friend of Orson Scott Card; her novel Paradise Vue was the first publication of his Hatrack River Publications and she was his co-author on Lovelock, the first part of a proposed trilogy. The second installment, Rasputin, was mentioned, but its future is unknown, especially as Card suffered a stroke on January 1, 2011.