Me: Stories from My Life by Katherine Hepburn Katherine Hepburn is one of the most unique and memorable stars of old Hollywood. Her acting career spanned nearly seven decades, earning her numerous awards including four Academy Awards, the most for any actress. She wrote two books, The Making of the AfricanQueen in 1987 and Me: Stories of My Life in 1991. Katherine Hepburn was an independent and forward-thinking person, whose ideas were cultivated by her very large family. She was born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut. His parents were liberals and activists. His mother, Katherine Houghton, was college educated and studying medicine when she met Dr. Thomas Hepburn. They soon became engaged and she abandoned her medical studies. After a while of being just a wife and mother to Katherine and her older brother, Tom, Mrs. Hepburn quickly grew restless and decided she needed a cause. She found her cause in the women's suffrage movement and soon became the head of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. Dr. Hepburn was also active in advancing knowledge of venereal diseases. He founded the New England Social Hygiene Association. The Hepburn children were not hidden from these problems. In fact, they participated in various events together with their parents. Katherine remembers attending a women's suffrage rally when she was about eight years old. Katherine had five brothers. Tom was the oldest, then Katherine, Dick, Bob, Marion and Peg. Because of the eleven to thirteen year age difference between Katherine and her younger sisters, she felt that they were more like her children than her brothers and did not relate to them as she related to her brothers. In fact, you could say that Tom and Katherine were two peas in a pod. The Hepburns always encourage physical activity in their children, whether it's swimming, cycling or golf. Katherine was just one of the kids growing up. He even sported a boyish haircut and went by the name “Jimmie.” Most of his summers, while growing up and throughout his life, were spent at his summer home in Fenwick, Connecticut. There was a big devastating event that happened when Katherine was in high school. When she was fourteen, she and her brother Tom were visiting relatives. One morning Katherine went to wake him up and found him hanging from a sheet, an alleged suicide or a trick gone wrong, according to the family..