About Roger BURKE

Roger Burke was born in November 1941 in Bremerton, Wash. He grew up and was educated in that state. He served three years in the U.S. Army (1962-65) and then completed his college education with a B.A. in History and English.

It was while in the army overseas that he decided to make a career as a writer. He has worked at many different jobs, including teaching high school. He has had several novels published including the highly praised Beyond Their Country in 1976. Among his other published novels are The Last Cowboy, 1989, and A Home in Bohemia, 1995. Burke is considered to be one of the best short story craftsmen of his age. He has also written several works of non-fiction. He has recently completed his new novel, A Home in Bohemia: II.

In 1994 Burke founded the non-profit organization Project Pilsen in order to build an American library in honor of the American soldiers who liberated the city in 1945 and to all the heroic Czechs who resisted first the Nazi occupation and then suffered over forty years of communist tyranny and suppression.