Dorothy Neighbors
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New Dorothy Neighbors’ Information
I came across this wonderful information about Jeanne Rounds Olsen who worked as “Dorothy Neighbors,” the pen name for the food editor at the Seattle Times. My thanks to the archivists at Washington State University who helped me find the materials and learn more about Olsen.
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Washington Food Editors & Pen Names
I am working on a history magazine article about three of the 1950s era food editors in Washington State who all wrote under pen names: Dorothy Dean (Spokesman-Review), Dorothy Neighbors (Seattle Times) and Prudence Penny (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). My goal is to tell the stories of the women behind the pen names. For example, this is Joan Conner McDonnell who wrote for the Dorothy Neighbors department. She raised eight children and went back to the newspaper each time. Her daughter Mimi said: “I am proud to say that my mother was a feminist before the phrase was coined, as well as after it was used as a pejorative label.” Another longtime…
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Stories of Washington State Food Editors
Columbia Magazine just accepted my pitch about Washington State food editors. (My 2010 article about women’s page journalist Bobbi McCallum was published in Columbia.) I am going to be writing about three of Washington’s food editors: Prudence Penny at the Seattle P-I, Dorothy Neighbors at the Seattle Times and Dorothy Dean at the Spokesman-Review – they are all pen names. What makes this work a challenge was the use of pen names. I want to know who these women actually were. For example, the food editors at the Spokane Spokesman-Review used the pen name “Dorothy Dean” for decades, with several women sharing the continuous byline. The first woman serving in…
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Top Food Editors: Day 13 and Dorothy Neighbors (Marion Ferriss Guinn)
Day 13 of top newspaper food editors feature Marion Guinn who used the pen name “Dorothy Neighbors” of the Seattle Times. Marion Ferriss Guinn graduated from the University of Washington in 1929 with degrees in home economics and journalism. She was the hired by the Seattle Times as a reporter. Soon she was named the new Dorothy Neighbors, writing columns and dispensing food advice. During World War II, when events were held in Victory Square, Guinn presented a number of “Housewives Go to War” programs advising women of ways to help the war effort. Her recipes were included in the 1952 Coast to Coast cookbook.
