Robert Roper

Robert Roper writes novels and biographies and is the author recently of The Savage Professor and Nabokov in America. He lives in the East Bay.  

Sep 26, 2022
Five Men, Six Days, and 34 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada

Alta Journal commissioned an expedition to retrace the first east-to-west crossing of the Sierra Nevada by nonnative people.

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Sep 27, 2021
Discovering the Prehistoric West
Anthropologist Robert Bettinger’s startling discoveries suggest that California-style hunting and gathering spread widely throughout th…
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Jul 20, 2020
Frost Was a San Francisco Kid
Long before he stopped by woods on a snowy evening, New England’s favorite poet roamed the rough-and-tumble streets of the Barbary Coas…
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