author
Lucy Pratt
Best known for warm, sharply observed fiction set in the American South, this early 20th-century writer turned her teaching experience into stories full of humor, character, and everyday life.
1 Audiobook
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
Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1874, Lucy Pratt was an American fiction writer whose work grew out of her years teaching at Hampton Institute in Virginia. That experience shaped the setting and voice of her best-known books, which are remembered for their close attention to regional speech and daily life.
Her novels include Ezekiel (1909) and Felix Tells It (1915), and contemporary library records also list Ezekiel Expands (1914). Readers who enjoy older character-driven fiction may find her work especially appealing for its lively storytelling and its picture of the post-Civil War South.
Reliable biographical information about her appears to be limited online, so many personal details remain hard to confirm. Even so, the surviving records make clear that she built her fiction from real experience and left behind a small but distinctive body of work.