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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

US writer. She published her early fiction and later non-fiction under her maiden and married names respectively. Among other contributions to education she popularized the Montessori teaching method in the USA in the 1910s.

Born in Lawrence, Kansas, she became a writer after earning a Columbia University PhD in Romance languages. Her translation of Giovanni Papini's Life of Christ became a best-seller in 1923. Her other literary work included books on educational subjects, novels, short stories, plays, and literary criticism. As well as writing, she was a founding member of the Book-of-the-Month editorial board (1926-50).

Among her novels were The Squirrel Cage 1912, The Bent Twig 1915, The Brimming Cup 1921, The Deepening Stream 1930, and Seasoned Timber 1939.



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