Dorothy Frooks, American author and actress (b. 1896)
Dorothy Frooks (February 12, 1896 – April 13, 1997) was an American author, publisher, military officer, lawyer, and suffragist. In 1934, she ran on the Law Preservation ticket for New York's At-large congressional district.

She worked as a writer for the New York Evening World and published the Murray Hill News in 1952. She also wrote Labor Courts Outlaw Strikes, a pamphlet calling for the establishment of a labor court.A lawyer in Peekskill, New York, she wrote numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including The Olympic Torch, The American Heart, and an autobiography, Lady Lawyer.