author
Walter Phelps Dodge
1869–1931
An American-born traveler, lawyer, and writer with a taste for history and far-off places, he turned wide-ranging study and travel into books on monarchy, old European families, and life on the road. His work reflects a worldly upbringing that stretched from Beirut to Europe, England, and the United States.
1 Audiobook
As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross
by Walter Phelps Dodge
About the author
Born in Beirut on June 13, 1869, Walter Phelps Dodge was the son of missionary educator David Stuart Dodge and Ellen Ada Phelps Dodge. Biographical records describe him as a lawyer and author who was educated by private tutors in Greece and Germany, later attended Yale, studied at Oxford, and traveled extensively before being admitted to the bar in London and later in New York.
Dodge wrote across several subjects, with books including Three Greek Tales, King Charles I: A Study, From Squire to Prince, and the travel book As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross. Those titles suggest the mix that made his work distinctive: part literary curiosity, part historical interest, and part firsthand observation.
He died in 1931. Though not widely read today, he remains an intriguing figure from a well-connected transatlantic world, remembered as a writer whose life seems to have been shaped as much by movement and study as by any one profession.