Robert Bausch (April 18, 1945 – October 9, 2018)[1][2] was an American fiction writer, the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories.
In 2005 Harcourt published his sixth novel, Out of Season, which was a Washington Post favorite book of the year.
Robert and Richard Bausch were born identical twins in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, in 1945, at the end of World War II, and were raised in the Washington, D. C., area.
Robert has worked as a salesman—of automobiles, appliances, and hardware—a taxi driver, waiter, production planner, and library assistant.
He was educated at George Mason University, earning a BA, an MA and an MFA, and he says he has been a writer all his life.
Newsweek called the novel “compelling” and it was favorably reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other publications.
A Hole in the Earth, (Harcourt, 2001; Harvest Books, 2002) his fourth novel, was inspired by his father, Robert Carl Bausch, a successful Washington businessman, who died unexpectedly in 1995 at the age of 79.