Nancy a GrayWhen Nancy Gray arrived in France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1954, the pros and cons of independence for the predominantly Muslim French dependencies in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) dominated virtually every front page and café converstion. Without the slightest hesitation, she scrapped her existing Christ-mas-travel plans in favor of a fact-finding tour of French North Africa. When she returned to Paris, she haunted bookseller's shops in search of literary and political works by North African writers available in French. Little did she imagine then that within a short six years, she would be living and working in Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islamic culture. A five-year participant in the Yale Writers' Conference memoir group, Nancy Gray is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (London) in recognition of her many exploratory journeys in the Mid-dle East and other parts of the developing world. Read More Read Less