Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty Audiobooks

2 Audiobooks

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, 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, 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

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 at a time when few women entered the profession. After practicing law in New York, she became deeply interested in juvenile justice and prison reform, work that helped shape her later writing and activism.

Doty built a wide-ranging career as a journalist, pacifist, and advocate for civil liberties. She reported on prisons and argued for more humane treatment of incarcerated people, and during World War I she covered the women's peace movement in Europe. She later served as International Secretary of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, linking her reporting to a larger international effort for peace.

She also wrote books that drew on her travels and public commitments, including Behind Prison Walls and The Open Road to Peace. Remembered as both an independent-minded writer and an activist, she brought firsthand experience, moral energy, and a reporter's eye to some of the most urgent questions of her era.