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Lucy Pratt

Best known for early 20th-century fiction in The Atlantic, this writer published stories that moved between childhood, everyday life, and longer-form narrative. Her surviving bibliography is small but distinctive, with work still preserved in major digital libraries.

1 Audiobook

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

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

About the author

Lucy Pratt was an American fiction writer whose work appeared in The Atlantic in the early 1900s. The magazine’s archive lists stories including In Goose Alley (1908), Across the Creek (1908), The Little Hopping Frog (1911), The Talking Wave (1911), The Gentleman With the Green Tie (1913), and Children Wanted (1916).

Library records also show that she wrote the 1909 book Ezekiel, illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele. The Online Books Page links her work with early 20th-century collections, and Project Gutenberg preserves Children Wanted through its inclusion in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series.

Reliable biographical details about her life beyond these publications were not clearly confirmed in the sources I found, so it seems safest to remember her mainly through the fiction itself: magazine stories and a novel that have lasted long enough to remain readable more than a century later.