Dorothy Gostwick Roberts was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on 6 July 1906, the daughter of the poet Theodore Goodridge Roberts and Frances Allen Roberts. Her uncle was Charles G. D. Roberts. During her early years she spent time in England, France, Ottawa, and Toronto; she was educated principally in Fredericton and at the University of New Brunswick (1926-1928). She was a reporter for the Fredericton Daily Mail and in 1929 married August R. Leisner. Their daughter, Anne, was born in 1931, and their son, John, in 1937. From 1938 to 1954 Roberts sold stories, generally of family situations, to various publications and worked on a novel that has never been published. Her married life was spent in Toronto from 1934 to late 1940, in Ithaca, New York, and, after 1945, in State College (later University Park), Pennsylvania. She has held poetry discussions and readings at Pennsylvania State University, where her husband was professor of English, and at...