She was a writer with a natural gift for storytelling, and her strong desire to help others shows clearly in her writing.
Her forebears originally settled in the mountains of southern Vermont about two hundred years before her birth, near the town of Arlington, and this was Fisher's residence most of her life, though she was born in Lawrence, Kansas. Her father, James Hulme Canfield, was a professor and president of several midwestern universities in the early twentieth century and later was the first librarian of Columbia University. Her mother, Flavia Camp Canfield, was a painter, and the young Dorothy had the advantage of living in Paris, France, on occasion, where her mother had a studio. Dorothy went to college at the University of Nebraska (where her father was president), and there she met and became a lifelong friend of Willa Cather, who was slightly older than she.
On 9 May 1907 Dorothy married John R. Fisher and settled in Arlington on a farm she inherited from her Canfield grandfather. She went to France and Spain during World War I to assist her husband, who had become a volunteer member of the American Field Service.
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