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1873–1958
Known for sharp, humane stories and essays, this Chicago writer captured everyday life with wit and sympathy. She was also deeply involved in reform-minded circles, linking her literary work to the social world around Hull House.

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

by Sue Ainslie Clark, Edith Wyatt
Born in Chicago in 1873, Edith Franklin Wyatt was an American writer of short stories, essays, and poetry whose work appeared in major magazines of her time. Her writing is often noted for its lively observation of ordinary people and for a style that feels both polished and warm.
Wyatt was connected with the cultural and reform movements around Hull House in Chicago, and that civic engagement helped shape the world she wrote about. Alongside her fiction, she wrote essays and sketches that drew on urban life, women’s experiences, and the changing social landscape of the early twentieth century.
Although she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, Wyatt remains an appealing figure for readers interested in Chicago literary history, Progressive Era culture, and finely observed short prose. She died in 1958.