Dodson, Daniel Boone.

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Donald Boone Dodson was born in 1918 in Portland Oregon, and received his B.A. from Reed College. After receiving that degree he enlisted in World War II, where he flew B-24 bombers. After the war, Dodson enrolled in Columbia University where he earned first an M.A. and then a Ph.D. in English literature.

Professor Dodson, a specialist in drama and contemporary comparative literature, began teaching at Columbia in 1947. He retired in 1980, and was awarded the 1980 Bancroft Distinguished Retiring Professor Award.

He was also a fiction writer who wrote six novels. The first of which, The Man Who Ran Away, was published in the late 1950s.

Dodson died of liver failure in 1991.