Born and brought up in the west of Scotland, Hugh McLeave studied history and modern languages at Glasgow University, spent five war years as an artillery officer in the Far East then went into London journalism, working for twenty years in Fleet Street. He was first a crime correspondent at Scotland Yard, then he covered the great events in science and medicine all over the world for the News Chronicle and Daily Mail, among them a too close-up look in 1957 at an H-bomb test in mid-Pacific and interviews with such disparate individuals as J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the A-bomb, Klaus Fuchs, who revealed its secrets to the Russians, and the first space-race pioneers, Russian and American. He knew Jonas Salk, who made the first polio vaccine and the men who trail-blazed modern of heart surgery on which he wrote the first popular book.. Becky Taylor is a third-generation native Oregonian and currently lives in a suburban subdivision situated in Springfield. Despite her feelings of being a voiceless woman lacking expertise (without an agent or publication credits), her concern for what was happening in the world and in her own subdivision pushed her beyond fear into action. She is a volunteer for a local non-profit butterfly education and preservation club. As a way of giving back to the place of her birth, she has worked as a civil servant for a local government for over fifteen years. More importantly, she and her husband, Alby Thoumsin, raise their young daughter in a place they call home.

 

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