Educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1905 with a degree in modern history, Dawson spent another year on a theological course at Union Seminary before deciding on a literary career. In 1906, he traveled to America and worked as an adviser to various English newspapers. In 1910, he became the literary adviser to the George H. Doran Publishing Company. That year, he published The Worker and Other Poems. He went to Canada in 1914 and trained at the Royal Military College which led to a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery. In 1916, he was sent to France and took part in battles on the Somme. He was wounded in France and returned to America where he lectured on the war. After the war, he returned to England and worked on European reconstruction. When Herbert Hoover was named to head the American Relief campaign in 1920, he chose Dawson for a special mission to Central and Eastern Europe. Dawson had a number of best-sellers and his works include The House of the Weeping Woman (1908), Last Chance River (1910), The Road to Avalon (1912), The Garden Without Walls (1913), Khaki Courage (1917), The Glory of the Trenches (1918), Living Bayonets (1919), The Little House (1920), The Kingdom Round the Corner (1921), The Vanishing Point (1922), Christmas Outside of Eden (1922), Old Youth (1925), The Unknown Soldier (1929), The Test of Scarlet (1930), A Path to Paradise (1932) and Inspiration Valley (1936). |
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