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Dorothea Canfield, the author of "A Thread Without a Knot," is one of the most brilliantand forceful writers in America to-day. She was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1879. Thedaughter of a teacher and writer, her education was intensive and varied. As a child shelearned to speak several languages. She received her B.A. from Ohio State University anda Ph. D. from Columbia University. She has studied and traveled extensively in Europeas well as in America.Both as a person and as a writer, Dorothea Canfield has been extraordinarily well liked.As an author she is characterized by originality, clearness, and the vital quality of humansympathy. She always writes with a purpose, both in her works of fiction and in hereducational writings. The writer's own ideals and common sense are revealed in her workand her stories are thoroughly interesting. Under the name, Dorothy Canfield, she haswritten some notable fiction. The Bent Twig is a graphic American novel in which areportrayed the influences of environment upon a most interesting character. UnderstoodBetsy is a girl's story of warm sympathy and strong common sense. The Real Motive is avolume of short stories from which the story, "A Thread Without a Knot," is taken. Thestories in the volume range in their settings from Paris to a middle western universitytown. As the title suggests, they are studies in human motives.Under her married name, Dorothea Canfield Fisher, she has written some valuableeducational works, as The Montessori Mother and Mothers and Children. During the