Richard Holmes Dodge

Background

Dodge was born on May 22, 1926, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Education

After serving in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946, Dodge graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1951. After further military service in Korea from 1951 to 1953; he returned to school to receive his master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1955.

Career

Dodge served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946. This was followed by military service in Korea from 1951 to 1953. He then taught at UCLA for a year before joining the faculty at Santa Monica College in 1956, remaining there until his retirement in 1992.

Dodge was passionate about writing and teaching, and helped found and co-directed the Writing Project beginning in 1977. He was also the author of the popular How to Read and Write in College textbook and, with Alan Casty, The Writing Project. But Dodge did not just write about writing. Among other projects, including several ghost-written publications, he collaborated with John Wooden and Bill Sharman on a series of books about basketball, and co-wrote I Am Not Spock with Star Trek actor Leonard Nemoy.

Achievements

• Dodge is best known as the co-author of I Am Not Spock book in the Star Trek universe. He was also a co-director of the Writing Project.

Works

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• book

  • How to read and write in college: A complete course 1962
  • I Am Not Spock 1975

Connections

colleague:

Alan Casty

colleague:

Bill Sharman

Sharman was an American professional basketball player and coach.

colleague:

John Wooden

References

• Contemporary Authors Volume 221
  2004