The photograph taken by Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Mother,” was rooted in time and place.
What drew you to write about a photographer like Dorothea Lange and her most famous subject?
I based the characters of Mary Coin and Vera Dare on Dorothea Lange and Florence Owens Thompson, actual people in history.
As much as is known about Dorothea Lange is as little that is known about Florence Owens Thompson.
Dorothea took the Moorish lady by the hand and leading her to a seat beside herself, requested her to remove her veil.
To build our bridge we must also procure helping hands, and for that we need your aid, Dorothea.
The efforts to draw something out of little Dorothea were also fruitless.
Yet Dorothea said the next day at the dinner table that she was going to accept the invitation.
He thought he had found some trace of the man he was in search of, but it was tiresome work, even in Dorothea's interest.
