Author Biography
Rolf McEwen has been a writer and photographer for many years. He has written plays including The Honeymoon, Mad Love, Inspector Strangelove, Love Will Find a Way, The War, The Joseph Story, Esther the Queen, The Institute, Cranking Up America, and The Fan. He created adaptations for Moliere plays including The Miser, The Middle Class Gentleman, Tartuffified, Deceits of Samson, Ladies of Learning, and The Hypochondriac. He wrote a how-to book regarding theatre arts programs entitled How to Build a Drama Program, describing how to create successful and financially profitable high school drama programs. He wrote a short novel, Mad Man, Wild Woman, about an unemployed, discouraged 19 year old man who falls in love with a woman of the same age who loves him wildly and helps him wonderfully. He published a how-to book about homeschooling entitled Homeschool - How & Why to Do It, as well as Ebola - Dealing with Death, an account of plagues of past centuries with descriptions of devastation to the human body. Ebola needs to be contained quickly. But not all is death and destruction. His love of humor is apparent in a coffee-table book about how to cope with a boring job--Survival Tactics for Office Workers. A book of witty proverbs provides a humorous touch to advice about sex in Teen Sexuality--A Humorous Guide Book. He wrote a collection of gushing poems entitled Amazing World, and financial advice in How to Create Wealth--A Book of Wit and Wisdom. He has published several photo books including Tripping through Oregon, Oregon Coast Drawings, Hawaii Pencil Drawings, Mediterranean Travel Drawings, Sketch Art, Portland Images - Travel Photos of Oregon, Salem Images, Seattle Images, Travel Hawaii - A Photo Montage, Corvallis Oregon - A Photo Story, Albany Oregon - A Photo Story, Dramatic Images, Images Black and White, Explosion of Color, Flower Wave, Urban Art, Ballet in Waves, Dance Images - Beautifully Distorted, Flowers of Paper, Flower Shower - Colored Pencil Drawings, Portland Colored Pencil Drawings, Seattle Images in Colored Pencil, and Light Wave - Fluid Photos. McEwen earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound and a Master of Teaching degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. He studied art, music, history, and literature in Rome and Vienna, and traveled throughout Europe.
