Background
Dodd, Lee Wilson was born on July 11, 1879 in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Calvin Tate and Melvina Eliza (Smith) Dodd.
Dodd, Lee Wilson was born on July 11, 1879 in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Calvin Tate and Melvina Eliza (Smith) Dodd.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Yale, 1899. Bachelor of Laws, New York Law School, 1901. Admitted to bar, 1902.
Gave up law for literature, 1907. Critic, Saturday Review of Literature. Lecturer Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, 1931-1932.
Member English faculty, Sarah Lawrence College.
Visiting lecturer English department, Wesleyan University, 1923-1933. Author: The Return of Eve (play), 1909.
Speed (play), 1911. The Middle Miles (poems), 1915.
His Majesty Bunker Bean (dramatization), 1915. Pals First (dramatization), 1917.
The Book of Susan (novel), 1920. Lilia Chenoworth (novel), 1922.
The Girl Next Door (novel), 1923.
The Changelings (play), 1923. The Sly Giraffe (for children), 1925. The Golden Complex, 1927.
The Great Enlightenment (poems), 1928.
Home: New Haven. Connecticut
Member English faculty, Sarah Lawrence College.
Married Marion Roberts Canby, January 11, 1907. Children: Doris, Alan.