Lee Wilson Dodd
American poet
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Lee Wilson Dodd (July 11, 1879 - May 16, 1933) was an American playwright, poet, novelist and short story writer. Several of his plays were made into films.[1] as well as reviews, and he was also a professor.
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Biography
Dodd was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania.[2] He began his career as a lawyer.
Yale University has a collection of his papers.[3]
Several of his works were published in Harper's Magazine.[4] He had a poem published in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse.[5] In 1919, Dodd's novel The Book of Susan was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.[6]
Dodd rented a camp at the Pocono Lake Preserve for many years, along with Henry Seidel Canby, before becoming one of the founders of the Yelping Hill Association.[6]
Dodd is quoted as having written: "Much that I sought, I could not find; much that I found, I could not bind; much that I bound, I could not free; much that I freed, returned to me."
Bibliography
- The Book of Susan
- His Majesty Bunker Bean, a Comedy in Four Acts and Five Scenes
- A Modern Alchemist, and Other Poems (1906)
- The Middle Miles and Other Poems
- Lilia Chenoworth
- The Book of Susan, a Novel (1920)
- The Golden Complex: A Defence of Inferiority (1927)
- A Garnerof Fugitive Pieces
Plays
- The Return of Eve (1909)
- Speed (1911)
- His Majesty Bunker Bean (1916)
- Pals First (1917)
- The Changelings (1923)
- A Strong Man's House (1929)[7]
Filmography
- The Return of Eve (1916), an adaptation of one of Wilson's plays
- Pals First, a Wilson play adapted into films in 1918 and 1926
- Bunker Bean adapted from Wilson's play that was an adaptation of a Harry Leon Wilson novel
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925 film), also an adaptation of a Wilson 1916 play adapted from a Harry Leon Wilson novel