Dorothy Canfield Fisher

(1879-1958) lived in Lincoln. Writer and educator, published over 40 books, including best-selling novels, short stories, young adult works, and non-fiction; helped introduce the Montessori Method in the United States, considered by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1958 as one of the ten most influential women in America. Consult American National Biography, Vol 8 (1999) 4-5.

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