College professor Dorothy Burton Skårdal was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1922. She attended Middlebury College (B.A. 1944), Radcliffe College (M.A. 1945), and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1963), where she studied with Oscar Handlin. In 1953 she married Olav Skårdal (1919-2004) and moved to Norway where she taught American Civilization at the University of Oslo (1965-1991). In 1974 she published The Divided Heart: Scandinavian Immigrant Experience through Literary Sources.
From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothy Burton Skårdal, 2005. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 421869231