Dorothy Langley
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Dorothy Langley was the pseudonym of Dorothy Selma Richardson Kissling (February 14, 1904 – April 5, 1969[1]), an American novelist. She won the Friends of American Writers Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine award for the best novel by a Midwestern writer for Dark Medallion (1945).[2]
Dorothy Selma Richardson was born on February 14, 1904, at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, where her father was serving with the US Army. Her parents died when she was two, and she was raised in Bloomfield, Missouri, by her two grandmothers.
She attended Southeast Missouri State College where she met and married Robert C. Kissling, who was her Latin professor. The couple lived in Boulder, Colorado, where Kissling was on the faculty of University of Colorado at Boulder and in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he taught at Valparaiso University, before settling in Chicago, Illinois. The couple had a son, Robert Richardson Kissling, and a daughter, Dorothy Selma Kissling.
She worked as a member of the editorial staffs of a number of professional associations, including the American Medical Association, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the International College of Surgeons.
She died in 1969.
