Lyle T. Roebuck (born August 22, 1968) is an American fiction writer. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Classical Latin and was educated at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and The University of Chicago. He has twice been named a finalist for the H. E. Francis Award; first in 2007, for "The Crab" and again in 2010 for "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus." Roebuck has also been a finalist for the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. His work has appeared in The Arkansas Review and other journals. In April 2011, Roebuck was named a finalist for the James Knudsen Prize in Fiction, as awarded by Bayou magazine.
He currently serves as senior Latinist at Elgin Academy. In 2007, his paper "Seneca on Nero: A Rule for Governance in de Clementia'" was presented at the 59th annual meeting of the American Classical League at The University of Pennsylvania. Roebuck's book, Ovid's Heroides with Notes and Vocabulary, was published in 1992 and remains in print from the Classical Association of New England.
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