The Picture of Dorian Gray August 1889, Stoddart dined with Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and T. P. Gill at the Langham Hotel, and commissioned novellas from each writer. Conan Doyle promptly submitted "The Sign of the Four" (1890) to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory; Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel was published in the February 1890 edition of "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine", yet Stoddart did not receive Wilde's manuscript for "The Picture of Dorian Gray" until 7 April 1890, nine months after having commissioned the novel from him. The literary merits of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" impressed Stoddart, but, as an editor,
Dorian Leigh food shops, according to a profile in "The New York Times" by Enid Nemy. She also worked with Martha Stewart in the early 1980s. Dorian wrote two cookbooks, "Pancakes: From Flapjacks to Crepes" (1987) and "Doughnuts: Over 3 Dozen Crullers, Fritters and Other Treats" (1994) at the age of 77. In 1980, Dorian published an autobiography, "The Girl Who Had Everything" (Doubleday). According to Dorian, she wrote her autobiography for her late son: "I really wrote it for Kim, who will never read it. But perhaps other Kims and their parents may learn from my unhappy experiences". Dorian died in