Bill Roorbach


TEMPLE STREAM is here!

"Bill Roorbach is a brilliant guide to the natural world. Gracefully combining deep knowledge, lyrical description and wry humor, his writing draws you out of your chair and into a world of streams and meadows and trees and bugs and beavers. And it makes you want to stay there." --Carole Goldberg, Hartford Courant

Contact Bill at bill@billroorbach.com

For conference and appearance bookings, private study, interviews, more information, or just to stay hello.

Spring News from Bill Roorbach


TEMPLE STREAM has won the nonfiction book award in the first ever Maine Literary Awards. Award ceremony is 7:00 p.m. on March 30th at the Glickman Library at the University of Southern Maine, Portland. Books and authors in thirteen categories will be honored.



Greetings

Click on titles in the right column to learn more about each book. Click tabs above to find upcoming readings and events, history and bibliography, interviews, and more about my editing and consultation practice. Right click on photo to download.

Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach lives in Western Maine, where he writes full time. He holds the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. His wife, Juliet Karelsen, is a painter. His daughter, Elysia, is five. Dog Desmond decided he was ready and passed away this winter at age 15. Old Wally is still going strong.


Books by Bill Roorbach
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Coming July 26 from Dial Press!
Temple Stream
A quest for the headwaters of a small stream in Maine becomes an obsession bound up in a celebration of life. --Kirkus Reviews
Essays
A Place on Water (with Robert Kimber and Wesley McNair)
Tilbury House: May, 2004. Three essays, three writers, one jewel of a Maine pond.
Into Woods
University of Notre Dame Press, 2002
Fiction
The Smallest Color: A Novel
Counterpoint Press, 2001 (paperback 2003)
Big Bend: Short Stories
(Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction)University of Georgia Press, 2001, paperback: Counterpoint Press, 2003
Memoir/Nature Writing
Summers With Juliet
Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Paperback: Ohio State University Press, 2000.
Teacherly Tomes



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