Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, whose nom-de-plume is “Dorothy Dix,”
was born in Montgomery county, Tennessee, November 18, 1870. She was
married November 21, 1888, to George O. Gilmer. In 1896 she became
the editor of the woman’s department of the New Orleans Picayune, and
contributed to that paper a series of articles called Dorothy Dix
Talks, which won her immediate recognition as a humorist. In 1900 she
joined the New York American and Journal staff as a writer on special
topics, which she treats in a breezy, snappy fashion.