Brewster Milton Robertson > Meet the Author

About the Author
A freelancer, Robertson regularly writes about the arts, writers and writing for Publisher’s Weekly and many other well-known periodicals. Over recent months he has published articles and stories in Apostrophe; The Los Angeles Times (Life and Style); USA Weekend magazine; Southern Book Trade; Bookpage; Real People magazine; The Chattahoochee Review; Beaufort/Lowcountry magazine; The Sun News (Knight Ridder newspapers, Myrtle Beach, SC); The Island Packet (McClatchy Newspapers, Hilton Head Island, SC); and The Beaufort Gazette (McClatchy, Beaufort, SC), among others.

Robertson is a member of Southern Book Critics Circle, and was formerly Literary Editor of Beaufort/Lowcountry magazine. Appearing as a guest lecturer both off and on the campus setting, he has taught Fiction Writing workshops at the Technical College of the Lowcountry at Beaufort, The College Center on Hilton Head Island, and the University of South Carolina-Beaufort.

Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Robertson holds a BA in Humanities from Thomas A. Edison State College, Trenton, New Jersey and graduated from Bluefield College (Virginia) in Pre-med and completed two years study in Commercial Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

In several other lives, Robertson has been a commercial artist, Army Medical Service officer, a pharmaceutical salesman, marketing consultant, Marketing Director for various hospitals and medically oriented companies, teacher, photographer’s model and film actor, ghost writer and consulting editor.

Literary Prizes and Awards
Winner (for his debut novel Rainy Days and Sundays) of the first annual Golden Eye Literary Prize (honoring the memory of the celebrated Georgia novelist Carson McCullers), Robertson is a 1995 Pushcart Prize nominee and nominee for the 1995 and 1996 Best American Essays.

All three of Robertson's novels have been nominated for the Library of Virginia Literary Awards - Rainy Days and Sundays (in 2001), The Grail Mystique (in 2003), and A Posturing of Fools (in 2005).