author
Edith Wyatt
1873–1958
A Chicago writer with a sharp eye for everyday lives, she moved easily between fiction, poetry, criticism, and social commentary. Her work grew out of the reform-minded literary world around Hull House and helped capture the spirit of early 20th-century Chicago.
3 Audiobooks
Making Both Ends Meet: The income and outlay of New York working girls
by Sue Ainslie Clark, Edith Wyatt
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
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
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt
About the author
Born in Tomah, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1873, she spent most of her life in Chicago after her family moved there when she was young. She attended Miss Rice's Higher School for Girls and later studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1892 to 1894.
In Chicago, she taught at Hull House and became part of the city's lively reform and literary circles. She wrote across several forms, including short stories, novels, poetry, essays, criticism, and social commentary, building a reputation as a thoughtful observer of urban life and culture.
She remained closely associated with Chicago throughout her career and life. Edith Franklin Wyatt died in Chicago on October 26, 1958.