Dorothea Frances Canfield was born in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Flavia Camp Canfield, an artist, and James Hulme Canfield, a professor of economics at the University of Kansas. She spent much of her childhood in travel. Mrs. Canfield had a studio...
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (née Dorothea Frances Canfield) published her first collection of short stories, Hillsboro People, in 1915 and her last, A Harvest of Stories, from a Half Century of Writing , in 1956. Fisher used her maiden name, Dorothy C...
THE BOOK OF VIRTUES: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories Edited, with commentary, by William J. Bennett Simon & Schuster. 831 pp. $27.50 THE FIRST HEROES and heroines I encountered emerged from a row of blue, clothbound books on a small-town...
Volunteers do a lot more than just Sugarplums If you've lived in the Miami Valley for a while, chances are you've had a pleasant encounter with some TWIGS. And we're not talking tree branches. In this case, they're 30 groups of committed...
