Meg Noble Peterson

When she's not traveling the world, MEG NOBLE PETERSON is based on Whidbey Island, Washington. She has loved travel ever since she accompanied the Quaker International Voluntary Service (QIVS) team to Europe in 1949 to help rebuild hospitals and schools destroyed during World War II. Her other international adventures include her trip behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s, two around-the-world solo backpacking trips, and treks in Tibet, Sikkim, Nepal, India, Peru, and Indochina.

She also served as educational director of Oscar Schmidt International for twenty years, and ran the international organization, Music Education for the Handicapped. In addition to her book, Madam, Have You Ever Really Been Happy? An Intimate Journey through Africa and Asia (June 2005), she has written 38 books in the field of music education, and co-authored a play, Thank You, Dear, which was produced in Deerfield, MA. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and New York Newsday. For more information go to www.megnoblepeterson.com