Date: 5/27/2009 to 6/27/2009
by Christian Feuerstein ’94
Martha Tod Dudman ’74 was born in St. Louis, Missouri; grew up in Washington, DC; and went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She moved to Maine in 1975, first to Little Cranberry Island, and then to Northeast Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, where she raised her son and daughter and where she still lives, today.
Dudman served as president and general manager of a group of radio stations in Ellsworth and Bangor for 10 years, and then as a professional fundraising consultant for Maine non-profits. She was President of the Maine Association of Broadcasters and President of the Bangor Rotary, and is a Paul Harris Fellow. She is currently Vice Chair of the Northeast Harbor Library and a director of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. She recently received the Deborah Morton Award at the University of New EnglandShe is the author of four books: Dawn (Puckerbrush Press, 1989), Augusta, Gone (Simon & Schuster, 2001), Expecting to Fly (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and Black Olives (Simon & Schuster, 2008). Kirkus Reviews said of Black Olives: “A story delivered with clarity, elegance and the oomph of lived experience.”
Augusta, Gone was winner of the 2002 Books for a Better Life Award and was released as a Lifetime television film in 2006.