Patricia Klaus
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Patricia Klaus

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Patricia Klaus is an independent scholar who attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, and then Stanford University where she earned a Ph.D. in Modern British History. She taught twentieth-century British history at Yale University, was a visiting lecturer at the University of Virginia and Stanford, and has written a number of historical articles. Her particular interests are women in nineteenth and twentieth century England as well as the study of war and literature, which made working on a book about the remarkable women of the Atomic Age especially appealing. Her love for history and literature is surpassed only by her love of horses and dogs. She left teaching to devote her time to raising her two sons and, later, to Hawkwood Hill Farm, an equestrian facility she owns with her husband, Robin, a business executive. Her son Ian was a Rhodes Scholar and has a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and now serves in the State Department, while Evan has spent the last five years in West Africa working for the Clinton Health Access Initiative. An accomplished equestrian, Patricia has competed in Three-Day-Eventing and Show Jumping. She has maintained her scholarly interests by reading incessantly, researching and editing books for friends and family, as well as serving on the University of California Press Foundation Board of Trustees. While writing the book Patricia and co-author Shirley Streshinsky often marveled over how the lives of "our women" and others in the book were intertwined. Another one of the concurrences is that Patricia's father (who flew in Burma and China during the war) spent most of his Air Force career flying with the 509th Bomb Wing, whose predecessor the 509th Composite Group had dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Patricia grew up on Strategic Air Command bases in North Africa and Roswell, New Mexico, some 100 miles from the Trinity Test site. More information is available at http://atomiclovestory.com.
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