Doris Buchanan Smith
Doris Buchanan Smith was an awardwinning author of childrens books.
Doris Jean Buchanan was born June 1, 1934 in Washington, D.C. to parents Charles A. and Flora R. Buchanan. At the age of two she began memorizing nursery rhymes her mother read to her, and then inventing stories of her own. At nine, her family moved from the nations capital, to Atlanta, Georgia. Noticing that she had a flair for storytelling, a sixthgrade teacher, Miss Pruitt , asked Doris if she planned on becoming a writer one day. The suggestion resonated and a closet writer was born. The next year her parents divorced, leaving Doris and her brothers Bob and Jim to be reared by their mother. While attending South Georgia College, Douglas, Georgia, Doris met R. Carroll Smith. Neither of them completed their courses, and in December 1954 they were married. The Smiths settled in Brunswick, Georgia, where they raised four children of their own and cared for dozens of foster children, including one whom they reared from ageto adulthood.
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