Lee Wilson Dodd (July 11, 1879 - May 16, 1933) was a playwright, poet, and novelist. Several of his plays were made into films. He also wrote short stories and poems as well as review and he was also a professor.
Dodd was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He began his career as a lawyer.
Yale University has a collection of his papers.
Several of his works were published in ''
Harper's Magazine''. He had a poem published in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse. In 1919, Dodd's novel The Book of Susan was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.
Dodd rented a camp at the
Pocono Lake Preserve for many years, along with
Henry Seidel Canby
Henry Seidel Canby (September 6, 1878 – April 5, 1961) was a critic, editor, and Yale University professor.
A scion of a Quaker family that arrived in Wilmington, Delaware, around 1740 and grew to regional prominence through milling and bu ...
, before becoming one of the founders of the Yelping Hill Association.
He corresponded with
Albert Johannsen
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.
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)
Filmography
*''
The Return of Eve
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'' (1916), an adaptation of one of Wilson's plays
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Pals First
''Pals First'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film produced and directed by Edwin Carewe. It stars Dolores del Río and Lloyd Hughes. Edwin Carewe directed the earlier 1918 version for Yorke Film Corporation. It was also called ''Pals ...
'', a Wilson play adapted into films in 1918 and 1926
*''
Bunker Bean
''Bunker Bean'' is a 1936 American black-and-white comedy film adapted from a novel by Harry Leon Wilson and the subsequent play adapted by Lee Wilson Dodd. It was directed by William Hamilton and Edward Killy, produced by William Sistrom, and s ...
'' adapted from Wilson's play that was an adaptation of a
Harry Leon Wilson
Harry Leon Wilson (May 1, 1867 – June 28, 1939) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''Ruggles of Red Gap'' and '' Merton of the Movies''. Another of his works, ''Bunker Bean'', helped popularize the term "flapper". ...
novel
*''
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925 film)'', also an adaptation of a Wilson 1916 play adapted from a Harry Leon Wilson novel
References
External links
Findagrave entry*
Lee Wilson Dodd Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Poets from Pennsylvania
American dramatists and playwrights
1879 births
1933 deaths