Dodie Smith

Life: about 1896 – 1990

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Dodie Smith (1896-1990) found success as a writer of children's books, and was later recognized as an important novelist. Her best known works include The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) and its sequel The Starlight Barking. I Capture the Castle (1948), an autobiographical novel now recognized as a literary classic, reflects her early years in the 1920s.