I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
List Price: $13.95
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0312201656
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Dorothy Gladys “Dodie” Smith was born in 1896 in Lancashire, England.
She was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation,
she wrote “Autumn,” “Crocus,” and “Dear Octopus,” among other plays. Her
first novel, I Capture the Castle (Little Brown, 1948) was written
when she lived in America during the ‘40s and marked her crossover debut
from playwright to novelist. The novel became an immediate success; it
was also produced as a play in 1954. Her other novels were The Town
in Bloom, It Ends With Revelations, A Tale of Two Families, and The
Girl in the Candle-Lit Bath. Today however, she is best known for
her stories for young readers, The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Heinemann,
1956) and The Starlight Barking (Heinemann, 1967; Simon & Schuster,
1968). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was inspired by Dodie’s own
Dalmatian named Pongo, and became the basis of two Disney films. The
Starlight Barking is also available in paperback from St. Martin’s
Press. Dodie Smith died in 1990.
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