Mona Tracy left Australia for New Zealand with her family shortly after her birth. In New Zealand she eventually became a journalist and writer of children's books, some of which have Australian settings. She moved to Sydney in 1912 and lived there for about a year, working as a reporter, before returning to New Zealand. As well as working as a journalist, 'she wrote for the Whitcombe's Historical Story Books series and produced several school history texts. Her encounters with idiosyncratic West Coast characters led to a series of radio broadcasts in the mid 1930s ... the scripts were later gathered together in West Coast Yesterdays, published posthumously in 1960.'
Tracy's mother, Catherine Julia Mackay (q.v.), was also a writer.
Source: Gilderdale, Betty. 'Tracy, Mona Innis 1892 - 1959'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 16 December 2003; URL: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/
Sighted: 14/04/2008