Dorothy (Dotty) Teresa Donovan González de Prats (1932-2016), writer, columnist, poet, artist. While born in Tampa Florida to an Irish-American family, she spent most of her life in Cuernavaca. Where she painted along side her husband, Ramón Prats.
She was an inquisitive child and held dreams of expressing herself as a writer, which came true after moving to Cuernavaca. In 1978, Dorothy received a call from a friend telling her that he had spoken to Federico Bracamontes and Jorge Lara, who were starting a newspaper “Diario de Morelos” in Cuernavaca and wanted to meet with her. The next morning, they met at a restaurant and said that they wanted Dorothy to write a daily column, and another in the Cultural Section of the Sunday edition of the paper, both in English. They settled on a salary, and Dorothy chose a weekly column dedicated to herbal wisdom. Thus the two columns; Carousel and The Medicine Tree were born. And, for the next 38 years, from the newspaper first edition in 1978, until her passing Dorothy’s dream came true.
A few years before her passing, Dorothy presented her book of Haiku poems entitled “Haikus” and the exhibition of ink drawings “The Voice of Silence” at the Mexico City Museum.
