![]() ![]() ![]() She traveled extensively, and her travels became the settings for her Mrs. Gilman's life is strongly reflected in her writing. Pollifax, a retired grandmother who becomes a CIA agent. She wrote children's stories for more than ten years under the name Dorothy Gilman Butters and then began writing adult novels about Mrs. Gilman worked as an art teacher and telephone operator before becoming an author. Gilman attended the University of Pennsylvania 1963–1964. The couple had two children, Christopher and Jonathan. Planning to write and illustrate books for children, she attended Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1940–1945. At 11, she competed against 10- to 16-year-olds in a story contest and won first place. Biography ĭorothy Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to minister James Bruce and Essa (Starkweather) Gilman. Begun in a time when women in mystery meant Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and international espionage meant young government men like James Bond and the spies of John le Carré and Graham Greene, Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s and is very likely the only spy in literature to belong simultaneously to the CIA and the local garden club. Dorothy Edith Gilman (J– February 2, 2012) was an American writer. ![]()
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