Dec 28, 2009

A Boat to Nowhere | About the Author

Maureen Ann Crane was born on January 25, 1940, in Ashiya, Japan, a beautiful community on the Inland Sea, to Albert Edwin Crane, a businessman, and Josephine Wagen Crane, a teacher from Geneva, Switzerland. Though not with great clarity, Maureen remembers the sound of World War II bombs raining on nearby Kobe and Osaka; she was not evacuated to a war-free countryside, and so these sensory memories have fueled the strong antiwar stance that permeates all her work. Because of the war's disruption and devastation, she was taught at home by her keenly intellectual Uncle Harry; she could...