Look and Listen

Biography

Pauline Hager lives in La Jolla, California and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Education. Pauline has worked as an administrative assistant, a production coordinator for Copley Newspapers, a realtor, and an English substitute teacher for the San Diego Unified School District. Ms. Hager and her husband lived in Japan from 1994 to 1996. Upon her return to San Diego, Pauline wrote a book Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan. She describes her fascinating and humorous life in Japan and about the exotic places she and her husband visited in the Far East. Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan is published by Infinity Publishing. Pauline's second book Giorgi's Greek Tragedy is a historical novel about the Greek War of Independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1821. The story covers the trials and tribulations of three generations of a Greek peasant family. On a more personal note, Pauline's interests include traveling all over the world, been to five continents so far, riding trains pulled by old steam engines, walking two miles every day, attending Tai Chi classes, and gardening. She and her husband have a garden railroad, G scale, in their back yard. Pauline does the hard work such as digging, planting all the miniature plants and weeding. Hubby Randy does all the fun stufff laying the track and running the trains. Most of all, Pauline loves to read books, all genres, and write. She has recently completed her first historical novel Giorgi the Greek Freedom Fighter, which should be available in early 2008.

Inspiration

I am inspired by my environment. The books I read and the movies I watch have a powerful impact on my imagination. By the time I was 10 years old, I had read all the Nancy Drew mystery books written by Caroline Keene. Her stories so impressed me that I was motivated to write my own stories. Nothing came of them, of course, but the seed to write was planted in my mind and I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I love to curl up in my Ekornes chair with a good mystery book, or watch a complicated murder mystery on television. My next project is to write one. I wonder how many other children have been inspired by Caroline Keene.