Rachel Wyatt

Rachel Wyatt CM (14 October 1929 – 7 July 2024) was an English-Canadian dramatist, originally from Bradford, England.

Wyatt emigrated to Canada with her family in 1957. She wrote scores of plays for the BBC and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Wyatt was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2002 and awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003. Wyatt died on 7 July 2024, at the age of 94.

Novels

• The String Box (1970)
• The Rosedale Hoax (1977) ISBN 978-0887840616
• Foreign Bodies (1982) ISBN 978-0887840920
• Time in the Air (1985) ISBN 978-0887841460
• Mona Lisa Smiled a Little (1999) ISBN 978-0889821804
• Time's Reach (2003) ISBN 978-0889822054

Short story collections

• The Day Marlene Dietrich Died (1996) ISBN 978-0889821613
• The Last We Heard of Leonard (2004) ISBN 978-0889822108
• The Magician's Beautiful Assistant (2005) ISBN 978-0973688221

Biographies

• Agnes Macphail (2000) Dundurn Press ISBN 978-0968360156

Sources

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

External links

• Literary archives
• Order of Canada
• The Magician's Beautiful Assistant
• Banff Centre
• List of Books, Plays, Readings, Awards, etc
• Agnes Macphail by Rachel Wyatt
• Archives of Rachel Wyatt (Rachel Wyatt fonds, R11832) are held at Library and Archives Canada