School Days Behind Barbed Wire
September 1942, Men building benches and chairs for classrooms in Heart Mountain. National Archives In my research for Unforgotten Voices...
A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT FALSE ASSUMPTIONS
Early on in researching my book, Dear Miss Breed, I went to Washington, D.C. to read the testimony from the 1981 hearings of the...
WHO'S WHO in Unforgotten Voices From Heart Mountain
Although many of those who lent their Voices to our book are no longer with us, we thought a list might help family and friends who might...
Cover Story...
As an author of dozens of books published by Scholastic, Bantam, Random House, Little Brown, Harper Row and other publishers that no...
Meet Those “Hillbilly Army Cadre People” A Story about Point of View
A friend recently mentioned it was too bad Unforgotten Voices didn’t include any interviews with men who served as guards in the camps,...
Thanks to Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego
Good friends in San Diego who supported my research for Dear Miss Breed are now helping to find family and friends of those featured in...
Unforgotten Stories — Extras
Out takes for movies are often hilarious snippets, with actors flubbing their lines. Books suffer from a similar fate. Usually, in final...
Unforgotten Receives an Unforgettable Review!
Delighted to share a recent review of Unforgotten Voices from Heart Mountain: "This vivid recounting of the World War II incarceration...
The Rebellious Miss Breed
Looking forward to Monday, Oct. 19th 6:30 PM Pacific Time to celebrate the legacy of the Rebellious Miss Breed, the San Diego librarian...
Street Scenes!
I've been doing research for a new book and reading old, old newspapers. I'm talking about newspapers from the Gilded Age, late 19th...