Parke S. Rouse, Jr.

Parke S. Rouse Jr.
Born	Parke Shepherd Rouse Jr. 1915 Smithfield, Virginia
Died	March 5, 1997 (aged 81–82) Williamsburg, Virginia
Pen name	Parke Rouse
Occupation	Journalist, Historian, Author
Nationality	American
Subject	Virginia History

Parke Shepherd Rouse Jr. (1915 – March 5, 1997) was an American journalist, writer and historian in Tidewater Virginia.

Parke S. Rouse Jr. was a native of the Town of Smithfield. He spent most of his childhood in Newport News, Virginia and was a 1937 graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

During his early years as a journalist, prior to World War II, Rouse worked for the Newport News Times-Herald and for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. After the War, Rouse returned to Virginia, where he served as an assistant to the Richmond Times-Dispatch's editor, Virginius Dabney, and later as the paper's Sunday Editor. In later life Rouse wrote a weekly column about Tidewater Virginia for the Newport News Daily Press.

Rouse combined his love of early Virginia history with his exceptional writing skills to produce 22 books and hundreds of newspaper columns on Virginia history, all marked by their author's innate grace, humor, and storytelling talent. Among Rouse's best-known works were a biography of James Blair, founder and first president of the College of William and Mary; a history of the college president's house; and a popular chronicle of Williamsburg's history before and during its restoration as Colonial Williamsburg by John D. Rockefeller Jr., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin.

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