[3] Her father, Albert, grew up in New Haven, Connecticut and worked at Yale University, where he ran the dining halls and food service.
Dobie traveled to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which straddles the border of North and South Dakota.
[11] Dobie's first and only book, The Only Girl in the Car, is a memoir in which she explores her sexuality during her teenage years.
When she was 15 she began seeing a boy, called "Jimmy" in the book, who was in a committed relationship with another girl, "Chrissy."
However, almost every night Jimmy would pick up Kathy from her home, his car already full with his friends who were drinking and smoking.
He would drop the friends off at the Teen Center where they spent their afternoons, and then he would take Kathy to an empty park.