![]() ![]() After her grandfather died of influenza during the 1918 pandemic, while serving with the United States Army in France during World War I, her grandmother married Leonard Knight Elmhirst (1893–1974). Straight's paternal grandfather was Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918), the son of Henry Harrison Straight (1846–1886). ![]() Secretary of the Navy during the Cleveland administration, and Flora Payne, the daughter of Senator Henry B. Straight was named after her paternal grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887–1968), the daughter of William Collins Whitney, the U.S. Her siblings include David Straight, Michael Straight Jr., Susan Straight, and Dinah Straight. She is the daughter of Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004) and Belinda Booth Crompton (1920–2015). ![]() Early life ĭorothy Straight was born on in Washington, D.C. Dorothy Elmhirst Straight (born in Washington, D.C.) is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history. ![]()
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