"Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III (Jan. 19, 1900- ), lawyer, was born in Columbus, Franklin County. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1922 and Ohio State University law school in 1925. After his admission to the bar in 1926, he practiced in Columbus."

[William Coyle (ed.), Ohio Authors and Their Books: Biographical Data and Selective Bibliographies for Ohio Authors, Native and Resident, 1796-1950 537 (Cleveland & New York: World Publishing Co. for Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, 1962)] [Biographical sketch used with the gracious permission of the Ohioana Library Association]

Rodgers practiced law in Columbus for eight years, did graduate work at Northwestern University, and then began to devote himself to writing. [Source: Books Review, 50 Ohio History 191-192 (____)]

Poetry Reviewed
Ohio History: Journal of the Ohio Historical Society

Poetry

Andrew Denny Rodgers, Little Symphony: And Other Poems ([Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, 1940)

___________________, Rocks Before the Mansion ([Los Angeles]: Ward Ritchie Press, 1940)

Writings

Andrew Denny Rodgers, "Noble Fellow," William Starling Sullivant (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940)( New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1968)

___________________, John Torrey; A Story of North American Botany (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1942)(New York: Hafner, 1965)

___________________, American Botany, 1873-1892; Decades of Transition (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1944)(New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1968)

___________________, John Merle Coulter, Missionary in Science (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1944)

___________________, Liberty Hyde Bailey; a Story of American Plant Sciences (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1949)(New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1965)

___________________, Bernhard Eduard Fernow; a Story of North American Forestry (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1951)(New York: Hafner Pub. Co., 1968)(Durham, North Carolina: Forest History Society, 1991)

___________________, Erwin Frink Smith; a Story of North American Plant Pathology (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952)

Research Resources

Andrew Denny Rodgers Papers, 1901-1980
Ohio Historical Society
Columbus, Ohio