An Anthology of the Writing of Earl Ronneberg is a compilation of twenty-two forms of writing that were authored between 1960 and 2016.During those fifty-seven years the reader will encounter written documents that include: a graded book report, fourteen one-act plays, almost a hundred poems, a speech, vignettes (defined below), six short stories, two successful mid-term exams, two graded final exams, a graded Master's Degree thesis, essays, a novel, a professional biography, an entertainment monologue, a fictional dream, a professional certification nomination, various academic papers, humorous recollections, autobiographical sketches, fragments of a memoir, introductory stories and information for every piece of writing, and a letter. The vignette section includes the following: action-packed fictional and real-life adventures of canoe rescues, fictional adventures of chases from locations as near as Michigan and as far away as Florence, Italy, fictionalized historical adventures from the Siege of Haarlem (Holland) in 1573 to the brave and successful challenge made by a Native American Ottawa Indian maiden to undo the unlawful actions of a Lumber Baron in the 19th century, real-life adventures of a young Chicagoan that range from his ordeals in the frozen depths of winter in that city to his battles with the huge white-capped breakers of Lake Michigan, and the use of three different genres to span time itself through: an epic poem depicting the creation of the Universe, to the story of a young man of twenty-two and his discovery while walking on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee between 45. C. E. and 55 C. E., and ending with the real-life story of one High School student doing what had never been done before followed by his attempt, as an adult, to walk in the footsteps of one of America's most well-known humorists. Drawing heavily on Ronneberg's previous fourteen books but also adding many new pieces of writing, An Anthology of the Writing of Earl Ronneberg offers something for every reader.
Earl Ronneberg grew up on the Northwest Side of Chicago in Edison Park. He attended Ebinger grammar school and Taft High School, both Chicago public schools. He earned a NROTC scholarship to Princeton, graduating with honors with a BSE in Civil engineering. Commissioned an Ensign, USN, he served three years on the destroyer USS Hank (DD-702). Upon completion of his military service in June of 1963, he attended Stanford university and earned a MSE degree (1964), met his wife, and was married in August of 1965. He has spent all his married life in Hyde Park and celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary in 2015. Earl spent thirty-two years working for IBM and retired in June of 1997. During his IBM employment he earned a MBA at the University of Chicago and, after retiring, he earned an MLA from the same institution in the year 2000. After the MLA degree he went on to audit some fifty classes at the University of Chicago and that effort continues. In 2008 he began writing and has published fourteen books to date; this Anthology will be his fifteenth book. His earlier books appear at the back of this Anthology. Since 1944 he has spent his summers at Bass Lake, Pentwater, Michigan, where he resides in a Summer Home built in 1905, a gift from his family and which has been maintained and remodeled over the years. Earl has two married children and three grandchildren.
