Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In 1899 WC began her important friendship with Isabelle McClung (later Hambourg) . From 1901 she lived at Isabelle's parents' home in Pittsburgh, and next year the two women went to Europe together (travelling...

The Good Earth was a Book of the Month Club choice, on the recommendation of Dorothy Canfield Fisher , who had sat up all night reading it. It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...

In the 1930s Dorothy Canfield Fisher had advised against publishing it, on the grounds that the transparent and unkind portraits of actual people would damage PSB 's reputation.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher contributed an introduction. Blixen had begun writing in earnest on her Kenyan farm, and from at least 1926 had entertained the idea of publication as a means of alleviating her financial...