Peter Bridges

Peter Bridges received degrees from Dartmouth College and Columbia University, and after two years as an Army private spent three decades as an officer of the United States Foreign Service in Washington and at American embassies in Panama, Moscow, Prague, Rome, and Mogadishu. He’s published three books: Safirka: An American Envoy (Kent State University Press, 2000), Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (Kent State, 2002), and Donn Piatt: Gadfly of the Gilded Age (Kent State, 2012). His shorter work has appeared, in addition to VQR, in the Christian Science Monitor, California Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, and elsewhere.