Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The prolific writer and activist Dorothy Canfield Fisher was well known in both Europe and America during the first half of the twentieth century. Fisher’s career was multidimensional. She published twelve novels, several short-story collections, a number of books of nonfiction, and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. She was also a popular public speaker. Herself well educated—she earned a doctorate in romance languages from Columbia University in 1904—Fisher advocated for educational issues all her life, writing and speaking on such topics as adult education, equal...
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