Author: Jean Milne
Bio: The author, Jean Milne, has been interested in foreign countries since she began writing to pen pals all over the world at the age of 10. After graduation from Occidental College, she took her M.A. degree in Spanish at the National University of Mexico and did graduate work in Spanish and French at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Milne spent many of her summer vacations in various Latin American countries, where she met some of her pen pals. She wrote a number of articles about these countries for travel magazines. She also spent three years doing cultural relations work for the U. S. State Department in Central America. A native Californian, Mrs. Milne now teaches Spanish in a Monterey (Calif.) high school.