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Bob R Bogle (born c1963) is an American novelist whose works explore science, politics and American history, particularly of the American Civil War. His first published novel was Memphis Blues Again (2013), being published episodically by Ouroborous Independent Books. This was proceeded by a literary biography of science fiction author Frank Herbert called Frank Herbert: the Works (2006), currently in its 3rd edition, published under the Hotspur imprint.

Biography and Career
Bogle was born in Yuma, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona in 1984 with a BS in Cellular and Developmental Biology. During his time as an undergrad he maintained the culture collection in Bob Hoshaw's Algal Research Laboratory. For about a year he worked in oceanography in the laboratory of Dr Greta Fryxell at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Most of Bogle's professional career has been spent as a Medical Technologist (University of Arizona, 1991), beginning with a sixteen year stint at University Medical Center in Tucson (now Banner University Medical Center Tucson), where he worked in the fields of clinical microbiology, chemistry and histocompatibility testing in support of transplantation. In recent years he's worked as a traveling technologist in Missouri, North Carolina, Washington state and Indiana.

Bogle's primary interests involve science, the American Civil War and the works of James Joyce; he often tweets (Twitter handle @BobRBogle) about these matters. In 2019 he built and uploaded the Vicksburg National Military Park Monuments and Markers Database (VNMPMAMdb) to Google Maps, which seeks to locate every marker and monument, present and past, placed on the grounds of the Vicksburg National Military Park and its immediate surroundings. He has also collected several playlists of Civil War battles on his YouTube channel.

Publications
Bogle's first publication was the exhaustive literary biography Frank Herbert: the Works. In a 2020 interview Bogle said: "I became obsessed with Frank Herbert when I was in high school in the late 70s . . . Around 2004 I decided to re-read all of his works I could get my hands on, fiction and non-fiction, in as close to chronological order as possible. I wanted to read closely, to see how Herbert’s own thinking and writing skills had evolved over time. I compiled extensive notes along the way . . .Turning those notes into a book took a few years. Even so, it was only several years later that I finally published the book." Frank Herbert: the Works was first published in 2012.

Two collections of his short stories also appeared in 2012: Pretty Little Dead Things and Other Stories and Leve non, Lespri and Other Stories.

Episode 1 of Memphis Blues Again appeared in 2013, an ambitious novel of the American South that inter-cuts a century and a half of history with action in the present day. A new writing project has interrupted the progress of Memphis Blues Again. In the 2020 interview Bogle said: "Episode 2 [of Memphis Blues Again] is very nearly complete. The work in progress has kept me busy ever since I started writing the first draft. With some luck the new novel will come out in 2021, and I can get back to finishing Episode 2."