Dorothy Sucher (nonfiction)

Dorothy Sucher (May 18, 1933 – August 22, 2010) was an American author and psychotherapist who worked as a reporter at the Greenbelt News Review, where an article that she wrote that quoted critics of a developers calling his plans "blackmail" initially resulted in a $17,500 judgement against the paper.

The U.S. Supreme Court would later overturn the lower court verdict, ruling in Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Assn. v. Bresler that the use of "rhetorical hyperbole" in such cases is covered by the First Amendment (nonfiction), a major victory that supported Freedom of the press in the United States.

She was born Dorothy Glassman on May 18, 1933, in Brooklyn, where she majored in English at Brooklyn College, graduating magna cum laude in 1954. She would later earn a master's degree in 1975 from Johns Hopkins University in mental health.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• First amendment (nonfiction)
• Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Ass'n, Inc. v. Bresler (nonfiction)
• Hyperbole (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Dorothy Sucher