woman officer. She served as secretary, and was the third Vice President. Teaching Dodd taught a course in bookselling at Columbia University Library School during the summers of 1930-1931, and for four years taught a course for Smith College at the Hampshire Bookshop on the History and Art of the Book. Librarianship Dodd worked as a librarian to John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board. Writing While living in Northampton, Massachusetts with Esther Dunn, Dodd published under the Hampshire Bookshop, and wrote prefaces, book reviews, and articles for publications such as Yankee Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and Atlantic Monthly. Dodd wrote a series of articles about Northampton local authors called "The Book Lover's Trail of New England." Death Dodd died on March 16, 1961 in Northampton at the age of 78. References External links Marion Elza Dodd papers at the Smith College Archives, Smith College Special Collections Hampshire Bookshop records at the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections 1883 births 1961 deaths American booksellers 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American women non-fiction writers People from Glen Ridge, New Jersey Writers from New Jersey Smith College alumni Columbia University School of Library Service alumni