I'm an award-winning author with a lifelong passion for writing. My genres range from human interest stories (more on that, below) to academic subjects, such as the international nature of the foreign consuls working throughout all fifty US states. The expanded, digital edition of that easy-to-read Guide (The Foreign Consuls Among Us: Local Bridges to Globalism) is now a Bestseller so check out the title on Amazon too! My bio for that particular book is also slightly different from what's here.
I return now to my historical memoir, The Yellow Star That Wasn't: Scandinavia, Miami, and Me, an Amazon Bestseller in four categories. Here, I interweave human interest stories with important historical facts about what happened to the Jews in Scandinavia during WWII (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) without over-whelming readers with mind-numbing information in a way that the previous literature about the years 1940-1945 has not done. Through ongoing lectures, I've learned what's of interest to my American audiences at lifelong learning venues and JCCs, all of which form the basis for my book. Although you might think my scholarly background (I'm a European and US-educated lawyer with a PhD in Ed Leadership) might not lend itself to the conversational tone I use in both of the above Bestsellers I believe serious subjects like mine don't always have to be presented in a heavy-handed academic voice for readers anxious to learn more about two research-based topics often found on a dusty library shelf somewhere.
You can also check out some of my other writings at my website, chofstadter.com