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Dorthea Dahl


Dorthea Dahl (March 20, 1881 – September 11, 1958) was a Norwegian-born American writer. Dahl has been recognized for her great contributions to Norwegian-American literature. She wrote numerous short stories for magazines, wrote and published collections of short stories and a novel.

Dahl was born at the parish of Osen in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. She was the daughter of Peder Person Dahl (1846-1925) and Lene Martinusdatter Ulvevadet Dahl (1839-1918). She came to America during 1883 at the age of two along with her parents and six older siblings. Her family initially lived in a homestead in Day County, South Dakota. In 1900, Dahl began at the State Normal School in Madison, Wisconsin, but the signs of tuberculosis prevented a future as a teacher. She briefly attended St. Olaf College but starting during 1903 would spend her adult life in Kootenai County, near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She worked as an accountant for a grain firm, in various trading companies and insurance companies.

Poor health thwarted her hopes of becoming a missionary, but she found consolation in taking part in temperance movement work. Religious by nature, Dahl was active within Lutheran Church organizations, including Daughters of the Reformation and the Rocky Mountain Women's Missionary Federation.

Dorthea Dahl was equally competent in both the Norwegian and English languages. She began writing her many stories of small-town and farm immigrant life exclusively in Norwegian, publishing in a variety of periodicals. Dahl wrote several books and a number of short stories published in the Norwegian-American press, most notably in the The Friend, published in Minneapolis by Nils Nilsen Ronning. Between 1917 and 1935, Dahl worked as a staff writer for two Norwegian language publications, the Christmas annual Jul i Vesterheimen and the Norwegian Lutheran Church publication Lutheraneren.


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