Brewster Chamberlin spent several decades of his life working as a historian, archivist, university teacher, lecturer, poet, essayist and writer of longer and shorter fictions while living in Manhattan, Germany, France, Italy, Washington D.C., and Greece. In 2001 he retired from an executive position at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. to move with his wife Lynn-Marie Smith to Key West, Florida, to devote himself full time to writing.