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.Rachel Wyatt obituary Legacy

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) Dundurn Press

Sources Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

References

External links Literary archives

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