About Dorothy Duncan
Lived 1903 – 1957 (aged 53–54). Dorothy Duncan was an American and Canadian writer, biographer and artist.
Dorothy Duncan (1903 – April 22, 1957), American writer and artist, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1946 for her book Partner in Three Worlds.
Born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1903 to Dorothy and Edwin L. Duncan, Dorothy Duncan grew up in the Chicago area and suffered from rheumatic fever which limited her physical abilities in later years. She earned a Bachelor of Science at Northwestern University in 1925 and worked in a variety of small businesses in Chicago.
Duncan died on Easter Day in 1957 of cancer.
Works You Can Live in an Apartment (1939) Here's to Canada! (1941) Bluenose: A Portrait of Nova Scotia (1942) Partner in Three Worlds (1944)
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Who was Dorothy Duncan?
writer (1903-1957)
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Dorothy Duncan was born in 1903 in East Orange.
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Dorothy Duncan died on 22 April 1957 in Montreal.
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Dorothy Duncan was a writer, biographer and artist.
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Dorothy Duncan was American and Canadian.
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