Dodie (Dorothy Gladys) Smith - British author, born in Lancashire, England on May 3,1896, died She November 1990, age 94. In 1948, while living in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Dodie completed her first novel, 'I Capture the Castle', inspired by her homesickness for England. In 1956 she wrote 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians' - later made into two Disney films. Also known as C.L. Anthony.