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- Harriet Doerr (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
- Harriet Doerr (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Harriet Doerr (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
See Also
- Stones for Ibarra (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
- Consider This, Señora (Magill Book Reviews)
- Way Stations (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Consider This, Señora (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Edie (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
Biography
Harriet Doerr (dowr) was born Harriet Huntington in Pasadena, California, on April 8, 1910. She was the granddaughter of railroad magnate Henry Edwards Huntington. She loved her large family and the house in which she was born; in fact, she memorialized this house in her essay “A Sleeve of Rain,” which she wrote for The Writer on Her Work, Volume II (1991), edited by Janet Sternburg. She wrote poetry while in high school and in 1927 began attending Smith College. As a sophomore she transferred to Stanford University, where Albert Doerr was...
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