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Steven B. Rogers . . . .

is originally from Chicago and is a freelance cultural and military historian and research consultant based in Washington, DC. He holds a BA in German and English from Florida Southern College; a MA in German Literature from the University of Arizona; and a PhD. in Germanic Studies from the University of Maryland. His essays, articles, poems, reviews and translations have appeared in several books, journals and magazines, encyclopedias, and anthologies. He is currently working on books about Frank Lloyd Wright and Thomas Wolfe, and on a novel set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Having retired from the Department of Justice in 2010 after almost 32 years of service investigating war crimes and human rights violations, he and his wife Sally Ann travel extensively and divide their time between their home in historic Mount Rainier, Maryland, and a lakeside cottage in New Gloucester, Maine.

forthcoming events and publications . . . .

July 4, 2013. TBA. Reading the Declaration of Independence. Town Hall. New Gloucester, Maine.

August 7, 2013. 7pm. An Evening of Poetry with Steven B. Rogers. Monhegan Library. Monhegan Island, Maine.

August 15, 2013. 7pm. An Evening of Poetry with Steven B. Rogers. New Gloucester Public Library. New Gloucester, Maine.

September 26, 2013. 7pm. Lecture on Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Shakers. New Gloucester Historical Society. New Gloucester, Maine

October 13, 2013. 6-8pm. Road-testing new poems at Iota Club & Cafe. The Federal Poets are featured. 2832 Wilson Boulevard. Arlington, Virginia.

December 8, 2013. 6-8pm. Road-testing new poems at Iota Club & Cafe. Featured readers are Hailey Leithauser and Greg McBride. 2832 Wilson Boulevard. Arlington, Virginia.

from the edge . . . .

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Two nice pieces in The Lakeland Ledger [Lakeland, Florida] concerning a recent talk I gave as part of the Homecoming festivities at my alma mater, Florida Southern College:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20130212/NEWS/130219802
http://www.theledger.com/article/20130215/NEWS/130219559?tc=ar

A very nice tribute to my late friend John Haines by my good friend Miles David Moore who was kind enough to cite my tribute to John in his review. http://www.scene4.com/0113/milesmoore0113.html

A nice shout out to my posting on the Newton massacre. http://www.scene4.com/milesdavidmoore/2012/12/recommending_another_column.html

selected bibliography . . . .

"Greetings from Asbury Park - 2009," in The Light in Darkness. August 2, 2012. http://www.thelightindarkness.com/darkness/greetings-from-asbury-park-2009/

"An America Beyond the Sunset: Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac and Their Manuscripts of the Night," in Pembroke Magazine #41 (North Carolina). Spring 2009.
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"August Neithardt von Gneisenau," in David T. Zabecki, ed. Chief of Staff: The Principal Staff Officers Behind History's Great Commanders, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
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A Gradual Twilight: An Appreciation of John Haines, Fort Lee, NJ: CavanKerry Press, 2003.
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"Stories I Have Listened To" in Steven B. Rogers, ed. A Gradual Twilight: An Appreciation of John Haines, Fort Lee, NJ: CavanKerry Press, 2003.

"In Search of John Steinbeck’s Maine," in Steinbeck Studies, Fall 2001.
[ See postings for April 19, 2009 and April 26, 2009 for a revised and updated version of this essay.]

"The Frank Lloyd Wright Campus at Florida Southern College: A Child of the Sun" in Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, Summer 2001.

‘That’s the Way to Live:" Thomas Wolfe Visits Vermont." in Pembroke Magazine #32, 2000.

"A Letter from Comrade Baird," in The Thomas Wolfe Review, Spring 1998.

"She Looked Like One of the Valkyries: Who Was Thomas Wolfe's German Girlfriend," in The Thomas Wolfe Review, Spring 1997. (Finalist for the 1997 Zelda Gitlin Prize)

"Ocean Point Rhapsody," in Down East Magazine, August 1996.

"From Nüremburg to OSI: The Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals," in The Holocaust: Introductory Essays. David Scrase and Wolfgang Mieder, ed. Burlington, VT: The Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, 1996.

"The Postwar German Vogue of Thomas Wolfe," in The Thomas Wolfe Review, Fall 1995.

"‘A Great Education Temple:’ The Frank Lloyd Wright Campus at Florida Southern College," in The Archi, Winter 1995.

"Leslie Baird and Thomas Wolfe: Chance Encounters in Paris and Hollywood," in The Thomas Wolfe Review, Fall 1994.

Spatial Behavioral Patterns in Selected Short Prose pf the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany As Evidence of Developing Cultural Diversification. Ann Arbor: University Microfilm International, 1985.

"The Unconscious Geometry of Human Space," in Günther Pfister, ed. Language Acquisition Through Cultural Awareness. Bethesda, MD: Cumberland Press, 1978, pp. 90-98.