Dorothy Canfield Fisher

This important writer spent most of her adult life in Arlington, Vermont, although she grew up in the Midwest. Fisher was a novelist, journalist, member of the Book-of-the-Month Club editorial board, fighter for women's and children's rights, and a champion of the educational theories of Maria Montessori. This biography introduces an unusual, spirited woman who became the author of classics like Understood Betsy.

Other VT Tidbits...
The Arlington town library is named after Fisher.