 Instead, I focused my degree on the Mencken/Haardt collection, promptly received a book contract, and became hooked.Rodgers has subsequently edited collections of essays by Mencken, and authored a lavishly praised Mencken biography.Joseph C. Goulden, founder of The Mencken Society, declared Rodgers’ book to be "the most superb and entertaining biography (in any field) that I’ve read in years.” "Kirkus Reviews" praised the book as “The best biography of Mencken to date.” "The Blade" found it to be “by far the best Mencken biography ever written...a masterpiece.” "Publishers Weekly" commended it as "a meticulous portrait of one of the most original and complicated men in American letters.”

Rodgers was born October 31, 1958 in Santiago, Chile, the daughter of Maria Arce Fernandez and William Livingston Rodgers.