Dorothy Selma Richardson was born on February 14, 1904 at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, where her father was serving with the US Army.
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Her parents died when she was two, and she was raised in Bloomfield, Missouri by her two grandmothers.
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She submitted the manuscript of Swamp Angel, a novel set among the poor country people living around Bloomfield, Missouri that she had written during the 1920s, to Simon and Schuster.
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