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Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty
1877–1963
A restless reformer and vivid observer of modern life, she turned her work as a lawyer, journalist, and peace activist into books that feel both adventurous and deeply humane. Her writing often blends firsthand reporting with a sharp concern for justice.
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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, in 1877, Madeleine Zabriskie Doty studied at Smith College and then earned a law degree from New York University. Early in her career she practiced law, but she became better known for writing and public work that connected feminism, prison reform, civil liberties, and international peace.
Doty wrote from experience. She investigated prison conditions closely enough to produce Society's Misfits, and she later published travel and political writing shaped by years of reporting and advocacy. She was also active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was associated with major civil-liberties causes in the early twentieth century.
Her life seems to have crossed an unusual number of worlds at once: law, journalism, reform politics, and international activism. That mix gives her books an energetic, curious quality, grounded in real encounters and a lasting belief that institutions could be challenged and changed.