Katherine HaasKatherine Haas was born in 1937 in Germany. Shortly thereafter, her family moved first to Italy, then to China and, when Katherine was 11, to the United States. Adjusting to new languages and cultures was challenging, and often discouraging. Katherin hopes readers of this book will never be ashamed to be different or an outsider, as she was. She loved raising three daughters with her husband Ray, teaching third and fourth graders for 44 years, and banding birds. Katherine lives in Maryland with her second husband, Robert Feldmann, who found her as a merry widow in 2014. She spends her retirement having fun learning new languages. Read More Read Less