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

Name:  

John Rouse

Education:

Univ. of Virginia, BA Foreign Affairs

Univ. of Wisconsin, MS Agricultural Economics

Residence:

Rome, Italy

Favorites:

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

Contact:

jgr3@mac.com

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