{{short description|American poet}}
thumb|''His Majesty Bunker Bean'', a comedy in four acts (1922) thumb|Set design schematic for ''His Majesty Bunker Bean'' '''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> as well as reviews, and he was also a professor.
== Biography == Dodd was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/lee-wilson-dodd-vault-0000026560|title=Lee Wilson Dodd|website=Playbill}}</ref> He began his career as a lawyer.
Yale University has a collection of his papers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1741|title=Collection: Lee Wilson Dodd papers | Archives at Yale|website=archives.yale.edu}}</ref>
Several of his works were published in ''Harper's Magazine''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://harpers.org/author/leewilsondodd/|title=Lee Wilson Dodd | Harper's Magazine|website=harpers.org}}</ref> He had a poem published in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse.<ref>{{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}}</ref> In 1919, Dodd's novel The Book of Susan was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0" />
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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/lee-wilson-dodd-7205|title=Lee Wilson Dodd – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB|website=www.ibdb.com}}</ref>
==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
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130721781/lee-wilson-dodd Findagrave entry] *Lee Wilson Dodd Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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