page_title: Mary R. Platt Hatch
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Mary R. Platt Hatch / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Book cover of "The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstocks", by Mrs. Mary R.P. Hatch
context_page_description: Mary R. Platt Hatch was an American author from New Hampshire. She contributed stories to the Transcript, Mountaineer, Fireside Companion, Chicago Ledger, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Springfield Republican, Granite Monthly, The Writer, and several magazines including the Portland Transcript, The Saturday Evening Post, Peterson's Magazine, as well as other periodicals. Her novels included The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstocks, The Bank Tragedy: A Novel, and The Missing Man, among others.
context_section_description: After completing her education, she married Antipas Morton Hatch, and became the mother of two sons. Being a farmer's wife, and living on a large farm, her writings were her recreation, and she was accustomed to writing during intervals of domestic life.
  Hatch's versatility afforded her to work in various areas of literature; for instance, at the same time that she was engaged in writing "The Bank Tragedy," a biographical sketch for The Writer, she also wrote a series of dialect papers. She contributed several excellent poems, which were widely copied, among them an "Ode to J. G. Blaine". She contributed stories for the Transcript, Mountaineer, Fireside Companion, Chicago Ledger, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Springfield Republican, Granite Monthly, The Writer, and several magazines. Among her most noteworthy stories are her "Upland Mystery" and "The Bank Tragedy", both of which appeared in the Transcript, with favorable comments from the US press. "Upland Mystery" was afterwards put in book form, and received a large sale. Poems, with a biographical note, were included in New Hampshire Poets, published in 1883. Hatch served as Literary Contributor to Willard and Livermore's American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (1897).
  She died in Santa Monica, California, November 28, 1935.
caption: The Strange Disappearance of Eugene Comstocks
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