Dear Dodie

Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, <i>The Hundred and One Dalmations</i> and <i>I Capture the Castle</i>. One of the most successful dramatists of her generation, she spent the war years in America, befriended Christopher Isherwood and, through Walt Disney''s film, became a household name.