Dorothy Joan Harris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dorothy Joan Harris

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1931

Place of Birth: Kōbe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Dorothy Joan Harris (born February 14, 1931) is a Japanese-born Canadian writer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She mainly writes children's books.The daughter of Hubert and Alice Langley, she was born Dorothy Joan Langley in Kobe and came with her family to St.
Catherines, Ontario in 1938.
She received a degree in modern languages from the University of Toronto in 1952 and went on to teach elementary school in France and Japan.
She returned to Toronto in 1954 and married Alan Harris in 1955; the couple had two children.
From 1955 to 1961, Harris was an editor for Copp Clark Publishers.
From 1977 to 1996, she was a public library assistant.She contributed to the 1999 anthology Too Young to Fight: Memories from our Youth During World War, which received the BolognaRagazzi Award at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
Her 2004 book A very unusual dog was nominated for a Chocolate Lily Award.