Download or read book Dear Dodie written by Valerie Grove and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honest, funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of the immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and I Capture the Castle. One of the most successful playwrights of her generation, she spent the war years in the U.S. where she befriended Christopher Isherwood, and through Walt Disney’s film, became a household name.