Mary Norton Kratt (born June 7, 1937) is an American author. She focuses on Southern history.
She was born in West Virginia. She attended Charlotte Central High School, Agnes Scott College and University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she received a degree in English literature.
Kratt has published 17 books of poetry, history and biography, mostly pertaining to the Charlotte area. She wrote two walking tours of uptown Charlotte and works closely with the Levine Museum of the New South.
Kratt served on the Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council.
She twice won the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series. In 1994, she won the Ethel Fortner Award from St. Andrews Presbyterian College. In 2000, she won the North Carolina Poetry Society Brockman-Campbell Book Award.