ABOUT
After graduating from college in 1964 and serving two years in the Navy, I joined the Peace Corps and worked as a volunteer in the mountains of Peru. Three years later I rejoined the Peace Corps as a staff member in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.
After graduate school, I worked promoting rural credit unions in Latin America and Africa promoting rural. Then in 1983 I joined the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) where I worked promoting farmer organizations in developing countries. I retired from FAO in 2004.
Through all those years I thought about writing a novel based on my experience in Peru. After retirement I finally got my chance. Sendero was published in 2012 and that same year I published a short novella entitled "Stopover in Phnom Penh."
I am currently working on my finishing a second novel, this time based on my working experience in Africa.
Other side activities include travel in Africa, Latin America and Asia and active participation as a board member of the Chijnaya Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting rural development activities in the altiplano region of southern Peru and supporter of BlueVoice.org
Profile
Name:
John Rouse
Education:
Univ. of Virginia, BA Foreign Affairs
Univ. of Wisconsin, MS Agricultural Economics
Residence:
Rome, Italy
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Quote:
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Authors: Dickens, Twain, Conrad, Chekov, Maugham, Greene, Le Carrè, Platchett, W. Boyd, Murukami, Soseki, Roger King, A. Munro.
Movies: Nashville, Sleepless in Seattle,
Music: Puccini, A. Boccelli, James Taylor
Personalities: S. Shriver, Bill Moyer, Steven Colbert, Michael Moore
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