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Robert Gary Dodds is renowned for his quick wit, instinctive humor, and rare ability to read people with remarkable accuracy. A published author now emerging as a serious voice in biography and historical research, he brings to his writing the same sharp perception that shaped his international career: the ability to ask the right question, uncover the telling fact, and find the human story behind the history.

 

Born in England with Scottish and Cornish heritage, Robert married into a family deeply rooted in Jamaica’s Scottish history. He and his wife, Mary, have lived full-time across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and North America, where they have maintained a home for more than 26 years and are dual U.S./U.K. citizens. His consulting work has also taken him through the West Indies and Latin America, while his friendships and professional connections remain truly global. Wherever they have lived, Robert and Mary have engaged in charitable endeavors, and he still serves on the Global Advisory Council of the Akilah Women’s Institute of Rwanda.

 

Robert is as at ease in Qatar’s arid desert quarter among Bedouin tribespeople as he is in the lush Blue Mountains of Jamaica or North Carolina among old friends. His life has moved through boardrooms, embassies, remote landscapes, great cities, and family homes across continents, giving him a breadth of experience few writers can claim and an instinctive understanding of character, culture, history, and human nature. Yet, for all that global adventure, Robert and his wife's greatest joy is found closer to home: spending time with their grandchildren, children, and gang of miniature schnauzers in North Carolina, where they retired from their international careers in December 2014. There, surrounded by family, memory, humor, and history, he continues to pursue the passion that now defines him: writing stories that bring the past vividly, intelligently, and irresistibly to life.

 

Robert adopted Americanized English spelling after more than two decades of residence in the United States or working for U.S. companies, and he asks his non-American English-language readers for their understanding.

We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. 

By the English author Oscar Wilde, in his short story, The Canterville Ghost, 1887.