She also wrote as D. B. Olsen, a version of her first married name,[4] and under the pseudonyms Dolan Birkley and Noel Burke.
Hitchens wrote Fool's Gold, the 1958 novel adapted by Jean-Luc Godard for his film Bande à part (1964).
[8] The Birk family was living in Long Beach by 1930 and Dolores apparently assumed her stepfather's surname.
[9] Hitchens married, in about 1934, Beverley S. Olsen, a radio operator on a merchant vessel, and their 1940 household included the widowed Myrtle Birk.
[10] It is not known whether Dolores divorced Olsen or was widowed, but she apparently married Hubert A. Hitchens, a Railroad Police, by the early 1940s, as they had a child together in 1942.