Looking Toward Portugal . . . .: December 2018

Steven B. Rogers . . . .

is originally from Chicago and is an independent cultural, social and military historian and research consultant based in Washington, DC. He holds a visitors diploma from the Pädagogische Hochschule and the Albert-Ludwig-Universität,
in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; 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, magazines, encyclopedias, and anthologies. He is currently working on a novel set in northwestern Maine in the 1950s, and on several other fictional works, most of which are set in rural Maine and Nova Scotia. Having retired from the US Department of Justice in early 2010 after 32 years of service investigating war crimes and human rights violations, he and his artist wife SallyAnn continue to reside in historic Mount Rainier, Maryland, on the edge of Washington, DC. They also enjoy spending considerable time in New England and Florida.

selected bibliography . . . .

"An Intermingling of Souls: Why I Write Letters. ASP Bulletin. Issue 2 / Winter 2021.

The Intermingling of Souls: Why I Write Letters | ASP (alansquirepublishing.com)

"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.
[See "Recommended Links"]

A Gradual Twilight: An Appreciation of John Haines, Fort Lee, NJ: CavanKerry Press, 2003.
[See "Recommended Links"]

"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.

White Autumn Reunion. Poems. Rainfeather Press, 1980.

Old Bone. Poems. Rainfeather Press, 1978.

Change Upon the Mesa. Poems. Rainfeather Press, 1978.

Another Forest: Early Poems. Rainfeather Press, 1976.

from the edge . . . .

News and commentary.

Two German-language pieces re. my appearance at the 70th anniversary commemoration of the beginning in the International Military Tribunal, in Nuernberg, Germany.
https://www.nuernberg.de/presse/mitteilungen/presse_44403.html
AND
http://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/nuernberg-nachrichten/sie-jagen-noch-weltweit-ns-verbrecher-21503-art1293433.html

A nice shout out to my blog :http://www.georgevecsey.com/home/thanksgiving-gettysburg-road-my-favorite-author

A Geman-language newspaper report on my participation in a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Nuernberg Trials on October 11, 2015:
http://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/nuernberg-nachrichten/sie-jagen-noch-weltweit-ns-verbrecher-21503-art1293433.html

This blog got a nice shout out from Living Lake Country out of Wisconsin: http://www.livinglakecountry.com/oconomowocfocus/news/delafield-farmer-brings-back-bon-brie-cheese-b9952700z1-217379031.html

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

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