First story wins award
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

First story wins award

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · April 12, 1944

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Dorothea Cornwell, (above) has realized the dream of every beginner in writing. She is the winner of the coveted Redbook-Dodd, Mead $10,000 Fiction Prize. The prize-winning novel was Mrs. Cornwell's first and it is a psychological study of a mother and daughter situation, titled "They Dare Not Go A-Hunting," adapted from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem. Mrs. Cornwell is 25 years old, hails from Louisville, Ky., and is married to a stationary engineer who will soon be inducted into the Armed Forces. She is stopping at the Shelton Hotel.

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