James Dodson is currently Writer-in-Residence for The Pilot newspaper and Editor of award-winning PineStraw Magazine in Southern Pines, North Carolina, the arts and culture magazine of the Carolina Sandhills.
His regular Sunday column in The Pilot was recently awarded top prize by the North Carolina Press Association. Over the course of a 25-year golf writing career, his writing has won more than a dozen awards from the Golf Writers of America and other industry organizations. He recently served as Distinguished Charles Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University in Virginia. For two decades he was a Contributing Editor and regular columnist for Golf Magazine, and Golf and Travel Correspondent for Departures Magazine of American Express.
Dodsons journalism awards include the prestigious William Allen White Award for Public Affairs Journalism from the University of Kansas, plus numerous newspaper and magazine industry awards. His work has appeared in over 50 magazines and newspapers worldwide. He is member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and the official historian of Seminole Golf Club.
His bestselling books include Final Rounds, The Dewsweepers, Beautiful Madness, The Road to Somewhere, Faithful Travelers, A Golfers Life (with Arnold Palmer), and Ben Hogan: An American Life, which won the USGA International Book Award in 2005. In 2008, he was a featured commentator in the award-winning HBO documentary Back Nine at Cherry Hills.
His latest book, A Son of the Game, published in 2009 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, was recently named Top Golf Book of the Year by the International Network of Golf. He is currently at work on American Triumvirate: How Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson Created the Modern Age of Golf, to be published in early 2012.
In early 2011, Dodson was named winner of the prestigious Donald Ross Award, given annually by the American Society of Golf Course Architects, for his significant literary contributions to the game of golf.
Dodson resides in Southern Pines, N.C. with his wife, Wendy.
