Robert (Bob) Blaisdell
, b. 1959
Bob Blaisdell (b. 1959) is an American freelance author, illustrator and editor. He obtained his B.A., M.A. and PhD from the University of California. He teaches English at Kingsborough Community College (City University, New York). He also works as a reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor. He is a frequent contributor to Dover Publications; his other works with them include The Story of Hercules (1997), Robin Hood (1993) and Essays on Civil Disobedience (2016). He also wrote the accompanying text to Dover’s Adventures of Hercules Coloring Book, with the illustrations again done by Green. He has written a handful of historical books such as Elizabethan Poetry, Great Speeches of the 20th Century, The Civil War, and has written two books on mythology – The Story of Hercules (1997), and Favorite Greek Myths.
Blaisdell is particularly attached to Anna Karenina and advises students that if they want "a solid basis for literary studies" they "should read the Bible cover to cover" (see here, accessed: October 31, 2018).
Sources:
Profile at the lareviewofbooks.org (accessed: July 4, 2018).
Profile at the goodreads.com (accessed: July 4, 2018).
Profile at the biblio.com (accessed: July 4, 2018).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk and Allison Rosenblum, Bar-Ilan University, allie.rose89@gmail.com
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