Dorothy Dix, a pen name for Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951) was born in Montgomery County, Tennessee, and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. She married George Oglethorpe Gilmer (? - 1931) in 1888. Dix was renowned for her pioneering journalism and was the most widely-read female journalist of the early 20th century, published in the New York Journal and syndicated across 273 papers. Her writing included advice columns and reporting of murders and trials, focusing on human interest. In 1901, Dix interviewed Alfred Farlow, who explained the tenets of Christian Science for the newspaper's average readership.

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