This is not a stereotyped biography, but a significant living through the years with a remarkable person—Dorothy Canfield Fisher—writer, educator, wife and mother, great American, friend to the world. 

Interpreted for young people with the amazing skill and rare understanding of a Newbery Award author, this is a vibrant moving portrait which will appeal to all perceptive readers.

Here are the broad streams that flowed into Dorothy Canfield's early life from the influence of her academic father and artistic mother, from travel, reading, country living, from contact with the wisdom and hard thinking of older people. Here is her marriage to John Fisher—one of the most moving of modern romances—revealing the creative aspect of love in the lives of two individuals. Here are the years of work, and the golden richness of long and well-deserved fulfillment.

This is a warmly intimate story of a woman who has known the brimming cup, the deepening stream and the seasoned strength of life; a story told against the background of Vermont's peculiar strengths and beauties and a circle of unique experience, which widened to include the world.

From the dust jacket