Andy Larson was born in Alberta Canada and grew up on a farm. His first job after leaving school was as a railroad Morse code telegrapher. He then became a commercial writer in Canadian radio and television, before leaving Canada in 1962. Signing on as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, he sailed to Africa,…
Victoria Subirana was born in Spain (1959) in Ripoll, a countryside village 70 km from Barcelona. Her mother Isabel is from Andalucía and the family migrated to Catalunya Region in the North East of Spain after the Spanish Civil War in search of better opportunities. Her father was Catalán, so she was fortunate to get…
Dean Barrett first came to Asia as a Chinese linguist with the American Army Security Agency specializing in Intelligence Operations. He later did graduate work in Asian Studies at San Francisco State College and received his M.A. from the University of Hawaii. Originally from Groton, Connecticut, Dean was a playwright in New York City for…
Biography of HAROLD STEPHENS By Mort Rosenblum, Associated Press, Paris As a foreign correspondent, my job involves the usual upheavals, small wars and workaday mayhem. Every so often, however, the mail includes a pleasant surprise which takes me away from that boring routine; a letter from Harold Stephens, filled with some real excitement. You can…
Doug Ingold, author of In the Big City, The Henderson Memories, Square and Rosyland grew up in a small central Illinois town near Peoria. As a young man he worked in a variety of interes ng jobs on farms, in factories, hospitals, parking garages, hotels, restaurants, science laboratories, etc. to pay his way through college….
ALBERT PODELL is a former editor of Playboy, Argosy, and Modern Man, has published more than 300 magazine articles, and was the winner of the Metcalfe Award as the best humor writer in the State of New York. He is the co-author of the adventure classic, Who Needs A Road (Wolfenden, 1999), now in its…
When you make the drive from the small town of Redway in northern California to Shelter Cove on the Pacific coast, no matter how many times you may have made the drive before, that first view of the cove and the blue Pacific beyond is always a welcoming sight. If you are one who feels…
Leslie F. “Buzz” Harcus, author of China Marine: Tsingtao Treasure The book harks back to a time when United States Marines were stationed in North China at the end of World War II. The battle tested Marines had been poised for the invasion of Japan in 1945, but with the surrender of Japan following the…
