James Dodson is an American writer. 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. He also serves as Founding Editor of O.Henry Magazine, the arts and culture sister publication in Greensboro, Dodson's hometown, and Salt Magazine in Wilmington. A Distinguished Alumni of East Carolina University, his weekly Sunday essay for The Pilot has won numerous awards from the North Carolina Press Association. Over the course of a 30-year golf writing career, his work has earned more than a dozen major 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 Departures Magazine of American Express. He also served as Distinguished Charles Rubin Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University in Virginia. Dodson's many conventional journalism awards include the prestigious William Allen White Award for Public Affairs Journalism plus numerous newspaper and magazine industry awards. 

January 1st, 1953 in (Age 71)