Scott Dodgson writes fiction and nonfiction exploring memory, history, place, art, weather, and the persistence of human experience. His novels, stories, essays, and memoirs move between personal memory and historical consciousness, revealing how lives, landscapes, and stories carry the past into the present.

The Salon Novel The Reader's Hidden World Memory, Association, and the Participatory Imagination

The Madness of Beauty’s Light

A work of autofiction moving through memory, war, family, beauty, loss, travel, and the divided territories of the self.

A literary crime novel set in New Orleans, combining narrative pressure with an examination of grief, violence, consequence, and moral choice.

Bohemian Angels is both a portrait of a century collapsing and a meditation on the fragile strength of those who endured it.

A novel set within the literary and artistic world of Paris, concerned with ambition, authorship, friendship, betrayal, memory, and the dangerous intimacy between art and life.

At once a coming-of-age fable and an indictment of empire, the novel explores the moral wreckage left behind when boyhood ends and history refuses to let go.

A genre-defying literary odyssey, part spiritual thriller, part love story, part philosophical excavation, exploring water as the element through which human emotion, memory, desire, and loss continue to move.