Born in 1957 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Roger is the youngest of three children. He grew up in the Washington area, and graduated from Boston University in 1979 with a degree in Journalism. In July 1994 he married Eleanore Fox, a member of the US Foreign Service; he travels with her, writing books as he goes. Shortly after they married, they went to Brasilia, Brazil for two-and-a-half years. They returned to the Washington area with a three-legged cat named 'The Woozle', and have recently added another cat, 'Mina'. In November 1999, Eleanore gave birth to their first child, Matthew Thomas Allen.
 
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Star Wars books:

The Corellian Trilogy
 'Ambush at Corellia'
 'Assault at Selonia'
 'Showdown at Centerpoint'
 

Non-SW books:

'Orphan of Creation' (1988)
'Farside Cannon' (1989 - prequel to 'The Ring of Charon')
'The War Machine' (1989 - with David Drake)
'The Ring of Charon' (1990 - 1st book of Hunted Earth)
'The Modular Man' (1992)
'Isaac Asimov's Caliban' (1993 - 1st book of the Caliban trilogy)
'Isaac Asimov's Inferno' (1994 - 2nd book of the Caliban trilogy)
'Allies and Aliens' (1995 - updated edition of first two books, 'The Torch of Honor' and 'Rogue Powers')
'Isaac Asimov's Utopia' (1996 - 3rd book of the Caliban trilogy)
'The Game of Worlds' (1999)
'The Depths of Time' (2000)
'Supernova' (with Eric Kotani)