Dan Newland

Born and reared in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Dan Newland has lived and worked in South America since 1973.

He was employed for thirteen years by the Buenos Aires Herald, a daily renowned for its valiant human rights campaign during Argentina's bloody era of military rule. Newland's editorial comments contributed to that effort. He reached the post of managing editor before leaving the Herald at the end of 1987 to begin his current career as an independent writer, translator, editor, ghost and author, and later served, additionally, as Special Projects Chief for Apertura, one of Argentina's top business magazines.

As a free-lance writer, his articles, comments and op-ed pieces have appeared in over a score of US and British publications including such names as USA Today, Business Week, U.S. Latin Trade, Newsweek, The World and I, the London Daily Telegraph, World Environment Report, Fodor's travel guides, the McGraw-Hill World Travel Guide, the first Insight Guide to Buenos Aires, The United States Information Agency, and many others.

He has been a translator for news services, publishing companies, advertising firms, a musical comedy team, investment banking operations, a major aircraft manufacturer, petroleum companies, law firms, wine-makers, a nuclear technology firm, a subway company, an architectural firm, a major fine arts museum, a worldwide social network, a clothing designer, a team of renowned psychologists and a social anthropologist, as well as for numerous magazines.

A few of the book translation and editing projects for which Newland has been contracted include "Hispanic New York - A Sourcebook", edited by Claudio Iván Remeseira; "No Reserve: The Limit of Absolute Power", by Martín Redrado (for Amazon), "Patagonia - Land of Giants", by Daniel Rivademar and Alejandro Winograd; "Sustainability 2.0", by Ernesto van Peborgh and the Odiseo Team; "El caso argentino", by Dr. Roberto Cortes Conde, and "Argentina - A Nation at the Crossroads of Myth and Reality", by Dr. Ricardo Zinn.

More recently, he worked on a long-term project with Uruguayan media executive and writer Roberto Vivo, serving as Mr. Vivo's chief translator, head of research and editor. As part of that project, Newland was Roberto Vivo's principal collaborator for the Uruguayan author's books entitled "Short History of World Religions" (Kindle), "El crimen de la guerra" (Distal) and a second Spanish edition of the same book published by Editorial Hojas del Sur under the title of "La guerra: un crimen contra la humanidad". He later translated and assisted the author in the creation of English versions of both books, the first entitled “Short History of World Religions” and the second, “War, A Crime Against Humanity”. This second book—in the acknowledgments of which Vivo referred to the indispensable role of Newland in its creation—brought the author considerable recognition. The English edition contained a foreword written by former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz praising the research and ideas that went into its writing and its crucial message that war is the supreme crime against humanity. Mr. Vivo also made a presentation of “War, A Crime Against Humanity” at the Vatican, in the presence of Pope Francis, and lectured on it at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Additionally, he was interviewed about the book on radio and TV in several countries.

In addition to his work as a literary translator, editor and ghostwriter, Newland is the author of a twice-monthly literary blog (The Southern Yankee: A Writer’s Log at http://southernyankeewriter.blogspot.com). He also publishes occasional trenchant political commentaries in his political blog (A Yankee At Large at http://yankeeatlarge.blogspot.com).

Despite earning his living entirely as a journalist, writer, editor, ghost and translator for more than four and a half decades, it wasn’t until 2021 that Newland published his first full-length creative work, a book of non-fiction stories entitled “The Rock Garden and Other Stories”. https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Dan-Newland/dp/B09M516KF1/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

“The Rock Garden” reads like a series of compelling short stories, all of which paint a portrait of a unique and captivating man and of the strange and haunting world that he has built around him in a small Ohio town.

In 2022, Newland published “Visions of What Used to Be” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WYC2LY8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

In this book, the author explores his past and that of the small Ohio town where he grew up. While the non-fiction stories contained in this book are very personal accounts, filled with the places, experiences, and colorful characters that formed part of the writer’s childhood and youth, they are also very much the universal experiences of an entire generation that grew up in the small-town Midwest of the 1950s and ‘60s. Huck Finn fantasies on the river that ran through town, the neighborhoods that witnessed his budding awareness, the town with its five and dimes, soda fountains and myriad shops and saloons on the main drag that, back then, were pretty much his entire world, as well as his discovery of a world beyond his town, and his portrayals of the rogues and rascals that peopled his rise to young-manhood.