And Brothers Once

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About the Author

Richard Thiel lived in Southern California for the most part since 1957. He taught at the graduate school level at both USC in the sixties and at CSUN following a two-year stint as a research associate with a social and educational center funded by the federal government. He retired from university teaching and spent his time reading, writing, tutoring handicapped youth and trying to improve his tennis game. Travel was his passion. He lived in Paris in 1956. The recent Parisian chronicle of historian, Stanley Karnow, though he dwelt among the famous there, did remind Richard of his own deep time he too spent on the Left Bank in early manhood and contrasted the “Paris est gris” with his revisit since the sandblasted whiteness of notable facades now intrude. The Paris of Brassai, Doisneau, Izis lived in his autumn memories. He was married to Annie. They enjoyed a blessed life together, connecting in a deep and loving relationship. Annie had four daughters and Richard had a son and a daughter. Annie and he traveled extensively, yet knew the differences quite well of that and touring. Travel brought adventure and deadly risk, especially once in Yugoslavia. Safaris in Africa had required some controlling interplay of others, but gave to both of them many glimpses of beauty and deadly cycles in that very land where we all began. Writing of people from their varied cultures and classes and the strained but deep ties stretching across American generations, their secrets and their bonds of love and sometimes forgiveness defined the crucible of his stories.