"People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food." -- Dorothy Gilman
Dorothy Gilman born June 25, 1923 (also known as Dorothy Gilman Butters) is a United States author of mystery and spy fiction. She is most well-known for the Mrs. Pollifax series of spy novels, about spy and grandmother Emily Pollifax, who chooses to become a spy in her 60s, and who stars in fourteen books written over three decades.
Gilman's books tend to feature uncommon, unique characters, often travelling to exotic locales.
"A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.""If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.""The best things arrive on time."
Contributor to Good Housekeeping, Jack and Jill, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Writer, and other magazines; contributor of short stories, under name Dorothy Gilman Butters, to Redbook.
Media Adaptations
Mrs. Pollifax...Spy was filmed by United Artists in 1970 as "Mrs. Pollifax--Spy," starring Rosalind Russell.
Angela Lansbury starred in the made-for-TV movie The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax in 1999. She was directed by her son, Anthony Pullen Shaw.