Dorothy M. Johnson(1905-1984)
- Writer
A graduate of the University of Montana, Dorothy Marie Johnson left her
widowed mother in Whitefish, Montana and moved to New York City, where
she worked as a writer and an editor of women's magazines. In 1950, she
returned to Whitefish and edited the local paper for three years; she
then joined the faculty of the University of Montana School of
Journalism. She subsequently published seventeen books and fifty-two
short stories, all primarily about the American West.
