George Rollie Adams

George Rollie Adams grew up among storytellers in southern Arkansas, taught public school there, and attended graduate school in Louisiana and Arizona. He produced two books with colleagues while living in Tennessee and crisscrossing the country researching historic sites for the National Park Service and wrote a third while serving as a history museum director in Louisiana and New York.Choice called his biography of General William S. Harney "an excellent book, expertly documented, and nicely...See more

George Rollie Adams grew up among storytellers in southern Arkansas, taught public school there, and attended graduate school in Louisiana and Arizona. He produced two books with colleagues while living in Tennessee and crisscrossing the country researching historic sites for the National Park Service and wrote a third while serving as a history museum director in Louisiana and New York.Choice called his biography of General William S. Harney "an excellent book, expertly documented, and nicely written." The reviewer for the Journal of American History termed it "a vivid portrayal." And the reviewer for the Denver Westerners said it "reads like a novel."Adams subsequently led the development of the Strong National Museum of Play into the world's first collections-based museum devoted solely to the critical role of play in learning and human development. There he established and served as editor in chief of the American Journal of Play and received recognition in college textbooks for innovative leadership in museum management and marketing.He now lives and writes among the natural beauty and bountiful farmland of New York's Finger Lakes region. His novels South of Little Rock and Found in Pieces have each received multiple awards for historical, regional, and social issues fiction. Because he comes from a family of quilters, their craft figures prominently in his writing. He and his wife have three adopted children, each from a different part of the world. See his website and read posts to his blog, "It Happened Like This and Other Stuff," at https: //GeorgeRollieAdamsBooks.com/ See less