Wade’s Writers

Wade's Bio
Author Bio

The writings of bestselling humorist Wade Rouse have been featured on NBC's Today Show, Chelsea Lately on E!, People.com, as well as on Michigan Radio, one of the nation's largest public radio stations, where Wade is a regular contributor. USA Today calls Wade "a wise, witty and often wicked voice," and the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic states that Rouse's memoirs are filled with "sparkling humor" and that everyone should "read Wade Rouse, especially if you value laughter and wisdom." As importantly, Writer's Digest named Rouse the #2 Writer, Dead or Alive, "We'd Love to Have Drinks With" (Wade was just behind Ernest Hemingway, and just ahead of Hunter S. Thompson).

Wade Rouse is the author of five books, including four critically-acclaimed memoirs: America's Boy (Dutton/2006), Confessions of A Prep School Mommy Handler (Harmony/2007), and the bestsellers, At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life (Harmony/2009), and It's All Relative: A Memoir of Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine (Crown/2011). Wade is also the creator and editor of the humorous dog anthology, I'm Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship: Hilarious, Heartwarming Tales about Man's Best Friends by America's Favorite Humorists (September 6, 2011-NAL/Penguin), which features a foreword by Chelsea Handler and her dog, Chunk, and essays by nine New York Times bestsellers and one Tony winner as well as Wade. Wade is donating 50 percent of the book's net royalties to the Humane Society of the United States. Wade's books have been national and IndieBound bestsellers, Indie Next List "Great Reads" selections, as well as named "Books of the Year", "Must-Read Picks" and "Breakout Books" by such places as Target, B&N, Detroit Free-Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Public Radio, Out magazine, the Grand Rapids Press and the American Library Association. It's All Relative will be released by Random House (Broadway Books) in paperback this February, and America's Boy is being reissued this fall by Magnus Books.

Rouse is a regular contributor to Michigan Public Radio, the nation's 8th-largest public radio station, where his humorous essays on life, love, technology and the holidays prompt laughter and tears in cars and offices across the state. He is a contributing humor columnist for Metrosource magazine, a national, glossy lifestyle and entertainment magazine geared towards the modern metropolitan gay community, which is the largest gay magazine in NYC and LA and the third largest in the nation, as well as for TheBeachCoast.com, an online lifestyle magazine for Lake Michigan's "Southern Riviera." Wade was a contributor to the humorous anthology on working in retail, The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles (Counterpoint-Soft Skull Press).

Wade's essays and articles have appeared in numerous national magazines and online publications, including Forbes.com, as well as on CBC Radio One's popular "Definitely Not the Opera" in Canada and Chicago Public Radio. He has lectured and taught writing seminars around the country, from Chicago's Printers Row Lit Festival and the Wisconsin Book Festival to The Chicago Public Library and the Erma Bombeck Humor Writers Workshop. Rouse is represented by the Random House Speakers Bureau and is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please visit www.rhspeakers.com or call 212-572-2013.

Rouse's personalized, intense and transformational writing retreats – which center on overcoming fears in one's life and one's writing – and provide insider advice on securing a literary agent and finding success as a fulltime author, have been credited by numerous writers for helping their manuscripts be published by mainstream publishers. For more, please visit www.WadesWriters.com.

He earned his B.A. in communications (with honors) from Drury College (now University) and his master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Rouse lives on the coast of Michigan, where – in between beach weather and blizzards – he writes memoirs and battles for bed space with his partner, Gary, and their beloved mutt, Mabel. Wade is a volunteer and fundraiser for Wishbone and Harbor Humane, animal shelters in Michigan, a member of HRC, and supporter of Hospice. He is an avid runner, reader and movie/theatre buff, and addicted to fashion, hair, lip shimmer, reality TV, wine, Kashi, and non-fat, triple shot white chocolate lattes.

Wade is represented by literary agent Wendy Sherman of Wendy Sherman Associates, and the Random House Speakers' Bureau.

For more, please visit www.WadeRouse.com, www.WadesWriters.com or www.rhspeakers.com.