Career
Clarissa Dixon"s friendships included the writer Jack London during her time among San Francisco bohemians from the early 1890s until 1916. Her only published book is Janet and Her Dear Phebe from 1909, which the New York Times characterized as "a very intense sort of a love story in which the lovers are two little girls who are devoted to each other with that fervency known only to feminine childhood." Marion Zimmer Bradley more recently described the book as a
In 1914, Clarissa Dixon began a typescript manuscript of biographical details of composer Henry Cowell"s early life, which she completed before her death from breast cancer in 1916.
