Mary Pott Hiatt (1920–2005) was a professor and chair of the English Department at Baruch College, City University of New York.
She was known for her working using computers to analyze the writing styles of both male and female novelists.
Hiatt was born in Wusih, China and then went on to graduate from the Shanghai American School in 1936.
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,[4] hence forming an important part of feminist scholarship.
In 1979 she received the Richard Braddock Award from the journal College Composition and Communication.