Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958, American novelist and juvenile writer, b. Lawrence, Kans., grad. Ohio State, 1899, Ph.D. Columbia, 1904. Her novels include The Bent Twig (1915), The Deepening Stream (1930), Seasoned Timber (1939), and Four-square (1949). She also wrote short stories; Vermont Tradition (1953), personal views of Vermont life; and several notable juvenile books, including Understood Betsy (1916) and Something Old, Something New (1949).

Canfield [Fisher], Dorothy (1879–1958), born in Kansas, resident in Vermont after 1907, where she wrote many novels. Among them are The Squirrel‐Cage (1912), dealing with the married life of an average American couple; The Bent Twig (1915), the story of a Midwestern professor's family; The Brimming Cup (1921), about a woman torn between husband and family and her love for another man; Her Son's Wife (1926), concerning a mother's attempt to dominate her son's family; and The Deepening Stream (1930), tracing the growth of a woman's character. Four Square (1949) collects 17 of her stories.