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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 (Steve), filled with some real excitement. You can spot Steve’s letters from across the room: The address is written in urgent printed characters, with the no-nonsense, slightly askew strokes of a man who has struck gold and is racing to catch the last burro to Eureka. The envelope seems to twitch and quiver from all the energy within. Read More |
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Doug Ingold, author of In the Big City, grew up in a small central Illinois town near Peoria. As a young man he worked in a variety of interesting jobs on farms, in factories, hospitals, parking garages, hotels, restaurants, science laboratories, etc. to pay his way through college. He graduated from Southern Illinois University with a major in psychology and a minor in philosophy. Read More | ||
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Harcus embellished an incident that had happened in Tsingtao, where he was stationed during 1947-1948, and developed it into a novel. The premise of the novel is having a former Marine return to China to recover black market money hidden in the old barracks thirty years after the Marines were forced out of China by the new Chinese Communist regime The United States Marines, as well as all foreign nations, were forced out of China in 1949. The story line of the book begins in 1979 — 30 years after the Marines were kicked out of China, and co-incidentally, the United States government was making important inroads into opening trade between the United States and China at that time. Read More | ||
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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 this way, that the view does something to you, then you will understand the message behind the book Under the Rising Sun, Memories of a Japanese Prisoner of War. When you read the book. It was that same view, and memories of Shelter Cove, that kept the author Mario Machi alive during the grim days of World War 11 when he was a prisoner of war under the Japanese. Read More | ||
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