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Mary Pott Hiatt (born Nov. 16^th 1920 in Wusih, China, died Nov. 13^th 2005 in University Heights, Ohio, USA). was a Professor and Chair of the English Department at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Hiatt pioneered the use of computers in analysing writing styles of both male and female novelists, for which she won the Richard Braddock Award from the Conference of College Composition and Communication in 1979

Research

Hiatt worked extensively on writing styles and wrote a number of works discussing the interrelationship of style and gender, addressing prevalent stereotypes about 19th and 20th century female novelists. Her computer-analysis of 19th century novelists compared 80 000 words randomly taken from works of both female and male novelists and found no significant differences in style , hence forming an important part of feminist scholarship.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Artful Balance: The Parallel Structures of Style (1975)
• The Way Women Write: Sex and Style in Contemporary Prose (1977)
• Style and the Scribbling Women: An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1993)

Journal Articles

• The Feminine Style: Theory and Fact (1978)

Awards

• Richard Braddock Award (1979)