About Douglas Rooks
As a journalist, Douglas Rooks served as editorial page editor for the
Kennebec Journal in Augusta, and editor and publisher of
Maine Times; he has written about state government and politics for 33 years, earning numerous national and regional awards. His biography,
Statesman: George Mitchell and the Art of the Possible, was published in 2016 by Down East Books. His newest book,
Rise, Decline and Renewal: The Democratic Party in Maine appeared in March, published by Hamilton Books.
A graduate magna cum laude of Colby College, he is a former board president of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church in Augusta, and lives with his wife in a 210-year-old farmhouse in West Gardiner. He is a local columnist for the
Kennebec Journal and
Morning Sentinel, and is at work on a biography of a pioneering 20th century Franco jurist and politician, Albert Beliveau.
