English by birth but global by inclination, he has lived much of his life outside the United Kingdom. In his younger years he worked as a plumber, heating engineer, soccer referee, handyman, Mediterranean deckhand, and teacher of English in a village on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. He is also a musician and an artist, and the creator of Mission to the Stars: A Space Rock Opera. It's All a Kind of Magic: The Young Ken Kesey is Dodgson's first book, and it has been very well received. It has been excerpted in the Utne Reader, and reviewed in the Journal of American History, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Kafka's Cage, the Portland Oregonian and the Bloomsbury Review.