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Marina, 37 (MD, Brown; MPH, Yale), is married and has a daughter, Claire, pictured here, and a son, Finn. She is doing her residency in Asheville, North Carolina.
Dylan, 28 (BA, Bates College), is senior deputy editor at Bleacherreport.com., a digital sports media network, which was bought out by Time Warner in 2012.
Dash, 19, is a sophmore at UC Davis, where he's a forward on the Aggies men's soccer team.
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Creighton University, 1975, MA, International Relations. Thesis: "Decision-Making Patterns in the Arab Middle East."
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University of Virginia, 1971, BA, French Literature. Spent the last two and a half years studying with the renowned short story writer, Peter Taylor, and so came into the world of writing....
I live in San Francisco with my wife, Barbara Roether, a Montessori high school humanities teacher, poet, and author. Among her books, Inside Tibetan Buddhism, written with Robert Thurman.
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And then three children, my novels.
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I was born in Los Angeles, grew up in New York City, and have lived in various cities around the country, as well as in both France and Morocco.
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Served as the historian for an intelligence processing wing at Strategic Air Command, Headquartered in Omaha, from 1971 to 1975. I wrote a Top Secret / Codeword quarterly account of the wing's activities.
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Photo interpreters in this wing found Soviet missile cannisters in Cuba in 1962.
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My father was a publicist, first for the Hearst Corporation (click on the image to the right), then for film producer David O. Selznick. He would go on to become a producer himself, as well as an inventor, painter, and screenwriter.
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My mother was a model, a professional photographer, and a professional tennis player. In the last 20 years of her life she lived in British Columbia, in a spiritual retreat oriented to the teachings of Bulgarian mystic, Omraan Mikhael Aivanhov.
