Brewster, Dorothy, 1883-1979

found: Doris Lessing, 1965:title page (Dorothy Brewster) page i (received her M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University; her distinguished teaching career at Columbia University included the introduction of courses in Comparative Literature in the School of General Studies, then known as University Extension; before her retirement in 1957 she conducted seminars in the English Graduate School at Columbia; is an authority on Russian fiction)

found: Contemporary Authors Online, via WWW, October 12, 2011(Dorothy Brewster; American Writer (1883-1979); born 1883 in St. Louis, Missouri; died April 17, 1979, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; daughter of William Morris Brewster and Lillie Higbee; A.B., Barnard College, 1906; A.M., Columbia University, 1907; Ph. D., Columbia University, 1913; assistant in English, Barnard College, New York City, 1908-1911; reader in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1914-1915; instructor, then associate professor of English, Columbia University, New York City, 1915-1950; member of the Modern Language Association of America, Women's Faculty Club (Columbia University), and English-Speaking Union (New York); a specialist in modern fiction and short-story writing; longtime member of the English faculty at Columbia University; author of literary biographies and books on American literature)

found: ancestry.com, via WWW, October 12, 2011(Dorothy Brewster; born September 8, 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri; died April 1979 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania)