Harriette Arnow Named To List Of 1955's Successes

Harriette Simpson Arnow, author of "The Dollmaker," has been named one of the six most successful women of 1955 by the editors of Woman's Home Companion.
Awarding the silver distaff to Mrs. Arnow, the magazine wrote: "Though she lives with her husband and two children in Ann Arbor township, (3220 Nixon Rd.) Harriette Simpson Arnow's roots and heart are in Kentucky's Cumberland. To write of it she gets up at 4 a.m., before time to get breakfast, see her husband off to work, drive the children to school. The critical and popular success achieved in 1955 by her third novel - The Dollmaker - climaxed 20 years of writing in early morning "spare time" hours. She is now assembling notes for a non-fiction book on Cumberland life in the 1780's."
Others winning the silver distaff, which "has been created to encourage all women to the realization that today they face a challenge to fulfill themselves not only within the family but also within the world," were Frances Elizabeth Willis, U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and the first woman career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to achieve appointment as an ambassador; Tenley Albright, holder of world and national women's figure skating championships; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, recent author of "Gift from the Sea"; Dr. Emma Moss, pathologist and newly inducted president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists; and Mildred McAfee Horton, wife of the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School and newly appointed member of the organizing committee of the Atoms-for-Peace Award established in 1955 by the Ford Motor Co. A former president of Wellesley College, she also headed the WAVES.