Dorothy (Dunbar) Bromley, 1896-1986

Dorothy (Dunbar) Bromley, journalist and writer, was born on December 25, 1896, on a farm near Ottawa, Illinois, daughter of Helen (Ewing) Dunbar and Charles E. Dunbar. She graduated from Northwestern University magna cum laude in 1918; during her college years she served as a member of the Signal Corps. She moved to New York City, where she became a widely published journalist; she did publicity and editorial work for Henry Holt and Company (1921-1924), wrote free-lance for magazines (1925-1934), and was a columnist and writer for the New York World Telegram (1935-1937), the New York Post (1938-1940), and the New York Herald Tribune (1942-1952), while continuing to write for various magazines: The Nation, The New Leader, Good Housekeeping, Harper's and McCall's .

As a free lance writer, DDB wrote extensively on such issues as divorce, voting, and criminal law and educational legislation in Britain and France for the The New York Times Magazine . Her regular column at the New York World Telegram dealt with topics pertaining to women, such as marriage and divorce, birth control, sexual stereotyping, women and work, and women and the legal system. A column in the New York Post entitled "Strike a Balance" addressed the political climate in Europe during the rise of Nazism and fascism. DDB was the editor of the Sunday women's page of the New York Herald Tribune and also wrote regularly on Depression era social welfare programs, child and domestic labor, juvenile delinquency, and criminal rehabilitation.

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