Columnists As They See Themselves. "Dorothy Dix - I was born at Woodstock, Tennessee...." Drawing of Dix at desk surrounded by letters, by McGonigle. The Literary Digest.
Dorothy Dix Collection As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951), writing under the pen name "Dorothy Dix," was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.