Name Dorothy Frooks Role Author | Books Lady Lawyer | |
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Born February 12, 1896 ( 1896-02-12 ) Saugerties, New York Occupation author, publisher, lawyer Known for political and social activism Died April 13, 1997, New York City, New York, United States Spouse Jay Vanderbilt (m. 1986–1997) Similar People Stephen Sondheim, Jack Nicholson, Dave Grusin | ||
Dorothy Frooks (February 12, 1896 – April 13, 1997) was an American author, publisher, military figure, lawyer and actress. In 1934, she ran on the Law Preservation ticket for U.S. Representative-at-large.
She worked as a writer for the New York Evening World and published the Murray Hill News in 1952. She also wrote Labor Courts Outlaw Strikes, a pamphlet calling for the establishment of a labor court. She was a lawyer in Peekskill, New York. She also wrote numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including The Olympic Torch, The American Heart, and an autobiography, Lady Lawyer.
She served as chief yeoman in the United States Navy during World War I and as a judge advocate in the United States Army during World War II. She also served as the National Commander of the Women World War Veterans and worked with the Veterans of World War I and the Retreads, an organization for veterans who served in both world wars.
Frooks appeared as one of the "Witnesses" in Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds along with fellow centenarian radicals Scott Nearing and George Seldes. Frooks, Nearing and Seldes were all firsthand witnesses of the red-baiting, McCarthyism, and Cold War hysteria of the 1950s.
Frooks died in 1997, at the age of 101, and was interred in Calverton National Cemetery.