Lee Wilson Dodd

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^[1] as well as reviews, and he was also a professor.

His Majesty Bunker Bean, a comedy in four acts (1922)

Set design schematic for His Majesty Bunker Bean

Dodd was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania.^[2] He began his career as a lawyer.

Yale University has a collection of his papers.^[3]

Several of his works were published in Harper's Magazine.^[4] He had a poem published in Poetry, A Magazine of Verse.^[5] In 1919, Dodd's novel The Book of Susan was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.^[6]

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.^[6]

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."

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)^[7]

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