THE AUTHORS
Nina Wolpe
Nina Wolpe taught for 20 years in the American Department of Defense base schools in Germany and Japan. During another seventeen years, she taught adult education classes in Montgomery County, Maryland, and taught in Massachusetts, Illinois and Virginia elementary schools. For two years, she taught in multinational classrooms in Nigeria. In the 1980s, she wrote a newspaper column for several Michigan papers, and has a self-published children’s book titled A Forest of Trees Does Not Grow There in Rows. Nina was married to the late U.S. Congressman Howard E. Wolpe and has one fabulous son, Michael Stevenson Wolpe.
Gordon Hideaki Nagai
Gordon Hideaki Nagai and his family were forcibly evacuated to an internment camp in Colorado and returned to their family-owned farm in February of 1945 before the end of the war. He graduated from the University of California with a master’s degree in social welfare and served 32 years as a social worker, including two years of alternative service as a conscientious objector with the California Department of Mental Hygiene. Gordon last worked with the Golden Gate Regional Center, which serves clients with developmental disabilities, retiring in 2000. He and his wife now live in Eugene, Oregon, close to their two children and four grandchildren. Gordon has written eight books of puns, including The Ultimate Book of Dad Jokes and Born to Pun. You can read his blog at journeysofabentmind.wordpress.com