Kevin H. Siepel writes on personal, historical, and environmental themes. His benchmark Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby (St. Martin’s, DaCapo, University of Nebraska Press) has proven durable, as has his biography of a western New York state pioneer, which also broke new ground. Mr. Siepel’s essays and articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Service Journal, Civil War, Wild West, two Chicken Soup for the Soul volumes, www.wordworth.com, and elsewhere. One of his Monitor essays was translated into several languages and published worldwide by the Readers Digest. Mr. Siepel also speaks and teaches Spanish.