- Real name
- Katharine Faulkner Swift
- Born
- April 19, 1897
- Died
- January 28, 1993
- Country
- United States
- IPI
-
00029993534 3 works
- Affiliation
- ASCAP
- Comments
- Composer of classical and popular song. Swift was trained as a classical musician and composer until George Gershwin encouraged her to write popular songs. Gershwin and Swift ultimately carried on a 10-year affair that ended on Gershwin's death and which broke up her marriage to James Paul Warburg.
- Family
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James Paul Warburg Husband (1918-1934)
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