Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson is an American journalist and author best known for her writing on subjects related to architecture, design, culture, and the built environment.
[1] Dickinson attended Towson High School in Baltimore and then spent two years at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia followed by a year studying in Paris through a program at the Sorbonne.
[2] Her 2018 article on the fashion designer Claire McCardell, "A Dress for Everyone," led Dickinson to propose a book on McCardell, titled Unhemmed, contracted to Simon & Schuster in March 2023.
[3] Dickinson has taught graduate-level writing and journalism at Johns Hopkins University (since 2018) and Maryland Institute College of Art (2009–2016).
[citation needed] Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 3 times (2013,[2] 2016, 2017) and has won multiple awards, grants, and fellowships including the following: