Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith
Smith in the 1930s
Smith in the 1930s
BornDorothy Gladys Smith
(1896-05-03)3 May 1896
Whitefield, Lancashire, England
Died24 November 1990(1990-11-24) (aged 94)
Uttlesford, Essex, England
Pen nameC. L. Anthony
Charles Henry Percy
OccupationNovelist, playwright
NationalityBritish
EducationSt Paul's Girls' School
GenreChildren's literature
Notable worksThe Hundred and One Dalmatians; I Capture the Castle; The Starlight Barking
Spouse
Alec Macbeth Beesley
(m. 1939; died 1987)

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003), and was adapted into a film released the same year.[1][2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hile 2004 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "What Dodie Smith did first: the story behind Dear Octopus". The Times.