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Roger W. Smith is a writer and independent scholar based in New York City. His experience includes freelance writing and editing, business writing, book reviewing, translating, and the teaching of writing and literature as an adjunct professor at St. John’s University.
Mr. Smith’s interests include personal essays and opinion pieces; American and world literature; culture, especially books and reading; classical music; current issues that involve social, moral, and philosophical views; and independent scholarship. He hosts a personal blog — rogersgleanings.com — as well as separate websites devoted to the author Theodore Dreiser and the sociologist and social philosopher Pitirim A. Sorokin. He also hosts a site devoted the craft and principles of writing.
My Smith’s translation experience includes translations from Russian and Spanish. He knows several Romance languages as well as Russian, which has enabled him to consult foreign sources about Whitman.
My email is brandeis106@gmail.com. Please feel free to contact me with comments or inquiries.
A bibliography of my published articles, journalism, books reviews, translations, etc. is posted below as Word document:
Roger W. Smith's Walt Whitman site 