About Dorothy Marie Donnelly
Dorothy Marie Donnelly (née Boillotat; September 7, 1903 – May 2, 1994) was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the United States. == Biography == She was born Dorothy Marie Boillotat in Detroit, raised in Grosse Pointe Park, and resided in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After two years at the Detroit Teachers College (now Wayne State University), she began teaching school at seventeen, and published two articles in the "Detroit Journal of Education (Sept. and Nov. 1921), while still in her teens. She enrolled in the University of Michigan and received B.A. and M.A degrees. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was the recipient of a (major) Hopwood award the first year they were offered. In 1931, she married Walter Donnelly, of Battle Creek, an earlier Phi Beta Kappa and M.A. at the University of Michigan, who had taught in the Dept. of Rhetoric and recently taken an editorial position with the University of Michigan. They resided at 612 Lawrence Street, Ann Arbor, for the rest of their lives.
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