Dorothy Langley

Background

Dorothy Selma Richardson was born on February 14, 1904 at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, where her father was serving with the United States Army.

Education

She attended Southeast Missouri State College where she met and married Robert C. Kissling, who was her Latin professor

Career

The couple lived in Boulder, Colorado, where Kissling was on the faculty of University of Colorado at Boulder and in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he taught at Valparaiso University, before settling in Chicago, Illinois. She died in 1969.

Achievements

• She won the Friends of American Writers award for the best novel by a Midwestern writer for Dark Medallion (1945).

Membership

She worked as a member of the editorial staffs of a number of professional associations, including the American Medical Association, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the International College of Surgeons.