The author escaped Communist Eastern Europe after World War II, discovered a love of drawing as a schoolboy in Austria, and a passion for writing and painting when he eventually reached America. He...view moreThe author escaped Communist Eastern Europe after World War II, discovered a love of drawing as a schoolboy in Austria, and a passion for writing and painting when he eventually reached America. He studied art and writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oregon. His two passions became a life jacket, helping him survive teaching English and twenty years as an American diplomat working in Europe, Africa and South America. He has published poems and stories in literary magazines and a novel, Discovering America.view less