Книга: Dorothy Gilman «Amazing Mrs. Pollifax»

Amazing Mrs. Pollifax

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

Amazing Mrs. Pollifax ISBN:9780449209127

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2015)

ISBN: 9780449209127

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Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman
Born 25 June 1923 (1923-06-25) (age 88)
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Occupation Author
Nationality American
Notable work(s) The Mrs. Pollifax series

Dorothy Gilman born June 25, 1923 (also known as Dorothy Gilman Butters) is a United States author of mystery and spy fiction. She is most well known for the Mrs. Pollifax series of spy novels, about spy and grandmother Emily Pollifax, who chooses to become a spy in her 60s, and who stars in fourteen books written over three decades.

Gilman's books tend to feature uncommon, unique characters, often travelling to exotic locales.

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Biography

Dorothy Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to minister James Bruce and Essa (Starkweather) Gilman.

She married teacher Edgar A. Butters, Jr. September 15, 1945 and was divorced in 1965. The couple had two children, Christopher and Jonathan.

She attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1940–1945 and the University of Pennsylvania 1963–1964. Gilman is a Unitarian Universalist.

Works

  • Enchanted Caravan (1949) (ASIN: B0006ary4y)
  • Carnival Gypsy (1950) (ASIN: B000jkb0oq)
  • Ragamuffin Alley (1951) (ASIN: B0006astpm)
  • The Calico Year (1953) (ASIN: B000gabx14)
  • Four Party Line (1954) (ASIN: B001k36208)
  • Papa Dolphin’s Table (1955) (ASIN: B000moc1qk)
  • Heartbreak Street (1958) (ASIN: B00209ktic)
  • Witch’s Silver (1959) (ASIN: B0006avz6m)
  • Masquerade (1961) (ASIN: B0006ax1im)
  • Heart’s Design (Masquerade Republished (1963) (ASIN: B000ts8al4)
  • Ten Leagues to Boston Town (1963) (ASIN: B0006ay2v2)
  • The Bells of Freedom (1963) (ASIN: B001u11ad4)
  • Kaleidoscope (2002) (ISBN 978-03454482170)

The Mrs. Pollifax series

Other

  • (Contributor) On Creative Writing 1964
  • A New Kind of Country (nonfiction), 1978
  • Contributor to Good Housekeeping, Jack and Jill, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Writer, and other magazines; contributor of short stories, under name Dorothy Gilman Butters, to Redbook.

Media Adaptations

Mrs. Pollifax—Spy was filmed by United Artists in 1970 as "Mrs. Pollifax--Spy," starring Rosalind Russell.

Angela Lansbury starred in the made-for-TV movie The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax in 1999. She was directed by her son, Anthony Pullen Shaw.

References

  • Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.

Fan website

Источник: Dorothy Gilman

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