Douglas Hilt, a transplant from his native England, has taught at three American universities and for 16 years chaired departments of Foreign Languages and European Languages and Literature. A recipient of Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright awards, among other honors he was appointed to the Georgia Consortium for International Education and was twice named Principal Humanities Scholar at the University of Hawaii. He has published several books as well as numerous articles and essays for both academia and the general public. His publications reflect his cross-cultural, multilingual, and interdisciplinary interests. He is fluent in several European languages and wrote his Master's thesis in Spanish at the University of the Americas in Mexico City before obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. Professional areas in which he has taught and lectured include Comparative Literature, Biography, and Exile Literature. As Professor Emeritus he has turned his hand to fiction that combines imaginative humor with a varied background and brings to his work an original slant. The present book is one of these, as well as his recent Feathers , Fur and Fins. 1412054893