Dana Gatlin

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Dana Gatlin

1884–1940

A journalist, magazine writer, and novelist, she moved from Kansas to New York and later became closely associated with the Unity movement. Her work ranges from early fiction to practical spiritual writing, showing a career that bridged literary journalism and devotional publishing.

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Missy

Missy

by Dana Gatlin

About the author

Born in 1884, Dana Elizabeth Gatlin was an American writer whose career reached across journalism, magazine work, fiction, and religious publishing. Available records identify her as a Kansas-born writer who went to New York in 1909 and spent several years as the literary critic for the New York Sun before turning to broader magazine work.

She also published fiction, including The Full Measure of Devotion in 1918, and later wrote for Unity School of Christianity. Her known books include Missy, God Is the Answer, and Unity's Fifty Golden Years: A History of the Unity Movement 1889–1939, which suggests both a storytelling gift and a strong connection to Unity's history and ideas.

Gatlin returned to the Kansas City area in 1922 and died in 1940. Even from the scattered record that survives, she stands out as a versatile early-20th-century woman writer who moved comfortably between newspaper culture, popular magazines, novels, and spiritually focused nonfiction.