Rod Russell-Ides
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Rod Russell-Ides

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Rod Russell-Ides was born on a hospital gurney in Oklahoma in 1946. He grew up in Kansas until his father sent him to prep school in Connecticut thus ending his life as a cowboy. His family exploded when he was fourteen and he had to re-invent himself in the middle of nowhere in the great American tradition, a talent he has pursued ever since. At various times he has been a go cart and motorcycle racer, a Mad Man, a rocker in Texas, a composer, a garden designer (rodrussellides.net), a landscape sculptor, and now author with his breakout memoir Sparky and the Dipshit. His work as a sculptor has carried him to the wilds of Alaska (he designed and built the largest man made waterfall in the state), to a museum in New York, to France where he studied and mapped the Grotto of Lourdes to replicate it in Texas for the Archbishop of Houston. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Isabella, a published playwrite and author, her daughter, Rachael, and her three sons, Emerson, Daschal and Elliot.
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