Rachel Wyatt (born 1929 in

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, England) is an English-Canadian

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. Wyatt emigrated to Canada with her family in 1957. She has written scores of plays for the

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and

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. Wyatt was appointed as a member of the

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in 2002 and awarded the

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in 2003.

Novels

* ''The String Box'' (1970) * ''The Rosedale Hoax'' (1977) * ''Foreign Bodies'' (1982) * ''Time in the Air'' (1985) * ''Mona Lisa Smiled a Little'' (1999) * ''Time's Reach'' (2003)

Short story collections

* ''The Day Marlene Dietrich Died'' (1996) * ''The Last We Heard of Leonard'' (2004) * ''The Magician's Beautiful Assistant'' (2005)

Biographies

* ''Agnes Macphail'' (2000)

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Sources

* ''Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature''

References

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1929 births Living people Writers from Bradford English dramatists and playwrights Canadian women dramatists and playwrights English emigrants to Canada English women writers 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Canadian women novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists Canadian women short story writers British women short story writers 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian short story writers 20th-century English women 20th-century English people {{england-writer-stub

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