Dorothy Gilman

The Bibliotherapist is IN: Books for Empty Nesters

By Amy Eller Lewis

October 20, 2013

The days got longer, the nights grew crisp. Commercials for school supplies ran on a seemingly constant loop during nighttime TV. It was time to send the kids to school again. But say that your little ones are no longer so little. And rather than packing a lunchbox, you were packing shower caddies and a…

Dorothy Gilman, credit Corey Lowenstein

R.I.P. Dorothy Gilman, Creator of the Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

By Laura K. Curtis

February 7, 2012

It’s taken a few days to get around to writing this post. Some of the earliest mysteries I remember reading were the Mrs. Pollifax books. Why, you might very well ask, would a pre-teen be interested in the adventures of a sixty-or-so widow? Because Mrs. Pollifax was wonderful. I think the obituary from the New…