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As a boy, Rolland Love lived on a spring-fed river in the Ozark Mountains and spent his summers helping an uncle run a float camp. He paddled wooden John Boats they made by hand and guided fishermen down the river.
His love for the country and people, as well as this special environment, ultimately motivated him to share his experiences with others through his writing and story telling. Rolland is the author of three fiction novels, An Ozark Mountains Blue Hole Murder Mystery, An Ozark Mountains River’s Edge Murder Mystery and Toe Tags and TNT.
His first mystery suspense novel won a Young Adult Book Award and was serialized in the Hannibal Courier Post, the newspaper where Mark Twain worked as a printer’s devil. Love’s short stories, won awards at the Ozark Creative Writers Conference, the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation conference and the Ozark Writers League. They have appeared in Kansas City Voices, Sun Publications, Best of Times, Kansas City Star and outdoor magazines.
He also co-authored a best selling computer resource directory. In addition, Love co-founded a company that developed and published educational health care software for young adults. He played the role of a medical healer at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and has been a volunteer for the Heart of America Performing Arts. He also belongs to The Friends of the Kaw, an environmental group whose primary purpose is to preserve the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. The group worked 14 months to prepare historic Kaw Point for the arrival of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery on June 25th, 2004 and hosted their return September 15, 2006. As a Lewis and Clark re-enactor, Love played the role of Pvt. Silas Goodrich, fisherman for the expedition and traveled the Missouri River with the Corps of Discovery.
Love directed the Respiratory Care Department at Barnes Hospital, a twelve hundred bed teaching institution affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Rolland and his wife have four grandchildren, two daughters and two Australian Shepherds, Sunny and Biscuit.
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