Machado, Mursalin: - Mursalin Machado was born in Santa Cruz, on the central coast of California in 1938. He has traveled throughout North America, Northern Greenland, Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Indonesia and the Pacific islands. He has taught middle school in India; worked as a merchant seaman in the Pacific, as a counselor to emotionally disturbed teenagers in England, and became a certified Hypnotherapist in California. His background includes music and art with four years in community theater and seventeen in the film industry. His writing began with stage plays and poetry.The author believes that the experience he gained from meeting people throughout the world, has been the most beneficial, generating the inspiration for his writing.