[1] Dobson graduated in 1963 from The King's College, New York gaining a degree in English.
She has taught Fulbright Fellowship International summer programs at Amherst College, and currently teaches courses at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, which in 2014 honored her as a writer, teacher, and scholar.
Pelletier is from working class Lowell and became an unmarried mother in high school and estranged from her family.
In 2012, Dobson announced a new series written in collaboration with Beverle Graves Myers set in World War II New York and featuring a seasoned homicide detective and two young women, a nurse and a reporter.
The book, Face of The Enemy, was on the bestseller list of the Maine Sunday Telegram.