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Birth: | 25th June, 1923 |
Death: | 2nd February, 2012 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
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Dorothy Edith Gilman was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was an American novelist and writer. She is best known for the Mrs. Pollifax series. Emily Pollifax, her heroine, became a spy in her 60s. She worked as an art teacher and telephone operator before becoming an author. She wrote children’s stories for more than ten years under the name Dorothy Gilman Butters and then began writing adult novels about Mrs. Pollifax, a retired grandmother who becomes a CIA agent. In 2010 Gilman was awarded the annual Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
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