Claire Hsu AccomandoClaire Hsu Accomando was born in Geneva, Switzerland, to a Chinese father and French-Armenian mother. She spent her early childhood in rural France, separated from her father who was in China during the second world war. Love and Rutabaga, first publshed by St. Martin's Press and released in a French translation by L'Harmattan in 2020, tells the story of those war years.Reunited after the war, the family moved to New York when Claire's father joined the United Nations. While she graduated from New York University with a science degree, she was always drawn more to the arts. Claire taught History through Art and English as a Second Language in Southern California for many years. Claire Hsu Accomando lives in Bonita, California. Read More Read Less