Name James Dodson | Role Writer | |
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Books Ben Hogan: An American Life, American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf | ||
Author james dodson on memoir writing
James Dodson (born 1953) is an American sports writer. He is currently a Writer-in-Residence for The Pilot (Moore County) newspaper, an editor of PineStraw magazine in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and an editor of the arts and culture magazine of the Carolina Sandhills. He also serves as Founding Editor of O. Henry Magazine, the arts and culture sister publication in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dodson's hometown, and Salt Magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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- Author james dodson on memoir writing
- James dodson on sam snead
- Awards
- Television
- Personal life
- References
Dodson is a Distinguished Alumnus of East Carolina University. Over the course of a 30-year golf writing career, his work has earned awards from the Golf Writers of America and other industry organizations. For two decades, he was a contributing editor and regular columnist for Golf Magazine, and golf and travel correspondent for the Departures magazine of American Express. In 2006, he was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University in Virginia.
James dodson on sam snead
Awards
Television
In 2008, Dodson was a featured commentator in the award-winning HBO documentary "Back Nine at Cherry Hills.” American Triumvirate: Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and the Age of Modern Golf was selected as one of the 100 notable books of 2012 by The New York Times and inspired a documentary of the same name on the Golf Channel, with a script by Dodson.
Personal life
Dodson and his wife, Wendy, divide their time between Southern Pines and Greensboro, North Carolina.
