Dorothy M. Broderick (June 23, 1929 – December 17, 2011) was an American writer, college professor, editor, and "a legend of YA librarianship".
She graduated from New Haven State Teachers College in 1953, and earned a master's in library science (MLS) from Columbia University in 1956.
Broderick spoke and wrote often on censorship issues,[10][11] and on the evolving nature of public libraries, especially for younger patrons.
[12] "It is not enough just to have beautiful buildings," she said in her keynote address to the annual conference of the Arizona State Library Association in 1967.
[28] Her more distinctive writings were published as part of a posthumous festschrift edited by Anthony Bernier, The Collected Wit and Wisdom of Dorothy M. Broderick (2013).