Lee Wilson Dodd

{{short description|American poet}}

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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{{Cite web|url=http://www.cornwallhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/exhibits/show/aa/bios/dodd|title=Lee Wilson Dodd (1879-1933) · Artists & Authors · Cornwall Historical Society|website=www.cornwallhistoricalsociety.org}} as well as reviews, and he was also a professor.

Dodd was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/lee-wilson-dodd-vault-0000026560|title=Lee Wilson Dodd|website=Playbill}} He began his career as a lawyer.

Yale University has a collection of his papers.{{Cite web|url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1741|title=Collection: Lee Wilson Dodd papers | Archives at Yale|website=archives.yale.edu}}

Several of his works were published in Harper's Magazine.{{Cite web|url=https://harpers.org/author/leewilsondodd/|title=Lee Wilson Dodd | Harper's Magazine|website=harpers.org}} He had a poem published in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bartleby.com/300/2174.html|title=Lee Wilson Dodd. Age and Youth. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22|website=www.bartleby.com}} In 1919, Dodd's novel The Book of Susan was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.{{Cite book|last=Zug|first=James|title=Pocono Lake Preserve: A Centennial History 1904-2004|publisher=Pocono Lake Preserve|year=2004|isbn=0-9755733-0-6|location=Pocono Lake, PA|pages=183}}

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.

He corresponded with Albert Johannsen.

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."