# Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (4 Kasım 1879 - 15 Ağustos 1935) Amerikalı vodvil sanatçısı, mizahçı, sosyal yorumcu ve sinema oyuncusu. 1920'lerde ve 1930'larda dünyanın en bilinen ünlülerinden birisiydi.


## Hayatı.
"Oklahoma'nın Favori Oğlu" olarak bilinir. Rogers, şimdi Oklahoma'nın parçası olan Indian Territory'de Cherokee Milleti'nden bir ailenin oğlu olarak doğdu. Dünya'yı üç kez seyahat eden Rogers, 71 film (50 sessiz film ve 21 "talkie") yaptı, gazetelerde 4.000'den fazla sütun yazdı ve dünyaca ünlü bir figür haline geldi.
Rogers kendi küçük uçağının Alaska'ya düşmesi sonucu 1935 yılında öldü.


## Referanslar ve ek okumalar.
### Biyografileri.
  - Anderson, Gary Clayton "Will Rogers and "His" America" (2010).
  - Ketchum, Richard M. "Will Rogers: His Life and Times" (1973)
  - O'Brien, P. J. "Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom." (1935) online edition 
  - Robinson, Ray. "American Original: A Life of Will Rogers." (1996). 288 pp. online edition 
  - Rollins, Peter C. "Will Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography." Greenwood, 1984. 282 pp.
  - Sterling, Bryan B., and Frances N. Sterling, "Will Rogers' World" (1989),
  - Yagoda, Ben. "Will Rogers: A Biography" (1993) excerpt and text search 


### Bilimsel çalışmaları.
  - Coleman, Timothy S. "All We Know of Nation Is What We See in the Pictures: Will Rogers and the National Imaginary in 1920s and 1930s America." PhD dissertation, Wayne State U. 2003. 183 pp. DAI 2004 64(12): 4245-A. DA3116488 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  - Jenkins, Ronald Scott. "Representative Clowns: Comedy and Democracy in America." PhD dissertation Harvard U. 1984. 208 pp. DAI 1984 45(4): 1187-A. DA8416931 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  - Johnson, Bobby H. and R. Stanley Mohler. "Wiley Post, His Winnie Mae, and the World's First Pressure Suit." Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1971.
  - Roach, Fred, Jr. "Will Rogers' Youthful Relationship with His Father, Clem Rogers: a Story of Love and Tension." "Chronicles of Oklahoma" 1980 58(3): 325-342. Issn: 0009-6024
  - Rollins, Peter C. "Will Rogers: Symbolic Man, Journalist, and Film Image." Journal of Popular Culture 1976 9(4): 851-877.
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  - Rogers, Will. "Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President" (1926) online edition 
  - Rogers, Will, and Joseph H. Carter. "Never Met a Man I Didn't Like" (1991) excerpt and text search 
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies." ed. by Arthur Frank Wertheim, (1992). 288 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles. Vol. 1, The Harding/Coolidge Years, 1922-1925." ed. by James M. Smallwood, (1980). 431 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles. Vol. 2: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927." ed. by Steven K. Gragert, (1980). 368 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles. Vol. 3: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929." ed. by Steven K. Gragert, (1981). 304 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles. Vol. 4: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931." ed. by Steven K. Gragert, (1981). 278 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers's Daily Telegrams. Vol. l, The Coolidge Years, 1926-1929." ed. by James M. Smallwood, 1978. 453 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams. Vol. 4, The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935." ed. by James M. Smallwood, (1979). 457 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "Convention Articles of Will Rogers." ed. by Joseph A. Stout, 1976. 174 pp.
  - Rogers, Will. "The Writings of Will Rogers. Volume 3: Illiterate Digest." ed. by Joseph A. Stout, Jr., 1974. 230 pp. online edition 
  - Rogers, Will. "Autobiography" (1948), ed. by Donald Day  410pp  online edition 
  - Rogers, Will. "Rogers-isms: the Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference", (1919). Online at Project Gutenberg 
  - Sterling, Bryan B., and Frances N. Sterling, eds. "Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (And Writers, Politicians Comedians, Browsers)" (1995).
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