Dorothy Gilman

Author profile

born

June 25, 1923 in The United States

died

February 02, 2012

gender

female

website

http://mrspollifax.com/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult, Children's Books

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Dorothy Gilman started writing when she was 9. At 11, she competed against 10 to 16-year-olds in a story contest and won first place. Dorothy 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. The Mrs. Pollifax series made Dorothy famous. While her stories nourish people’s thirst for adventure and mystery, Dorothy knew about nourishing the body as well. She used to live on a farm in Nova Scotia, where she grew medicinal herbs. Her knowledge of herbs comes through in many of her stories, including A Nun in the Closet, in which...more

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Books by Dorothy Gilman

Average rating: 3.93 · 23,253 ratings · 1,632 reviews · 39 distinct works

	The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax #1) 4.05 avg rating — 4,575 ratings — published 1966 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax 4.00 avg rating — 1,848 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax 3.99 avg rating — 1,505 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Pollifax on Safari 3.96 avg rating — 1,349 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 4) 3.98 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 1973 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 9) 3.88 avg rating — 1,177 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 7) 3.88 avg rating — 1,116 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 8) 3.86 avg rating — 1,113 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 6) 3.95 avg rating — 1,084 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 13) 3.92 avg rating — 982 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Series by Dorothy Gilman

Mrs. Pollifax (14 books)
by Dorothy Gilman

3.96 avg rating — 19,710 ratings

Quotes by Dorothy Gilman

“In the morning when Mrs. Pollifax awoke she realized at once that a fateful day was beginning. She lay and thought about this dispassionately, almost wonderingly, because to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one's hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God. There was nothing to do but accept, and from this to proceed, doing the very best that could be done.”
― Dorothy Gilman, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

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