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Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson) Mygatt
1885–1973
A prolific American writer and committed pacifist, she linked her literary work with decades of activism for peace, civil liberties, and social justice. Much of her life’s work was created in close partnership with Frances M. Witherspoon.
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Bird's nest, a fantasy in one act
by Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson) Mygatt
About the author
Born in Brooklyn in 1885, Tracy Dickinson Mygatt was an American writer, pacifist, and reformer. Reliable sources describe her as a co-founder of the War Resisters League and a longtime officer of the Campaign for World Government, showing how closely her writing life was tied to public causes.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1908 and went on to spend more than sixty years living and working with fellow writer and activist Frances M. Witherspoon. Archive records describe the two as prolific collaborators who wrote plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories while taking part in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights.
Mygatt died in 1973, leaving behind a body of work shaped by conscience as much as craft. For readers, her story stands out because she wrote not from the sidelines, but from inside the great reform movements of her time.