Susan Robison ’79 writes: A few days after I retired in 2019 I began writing Halley and the Mystery of the Lost Girls, a young adult historical adventure, about a 15 year old girl who goes with her father to India in 1952. Shortly after they arrive in Bombay (Mumbai) Halley discovers that the young woman in the hotel room next to hers is a prisoner. When the young woman disappears, Halley is drawn into an ever-expanding web of intrigue and danger.
During my years at Berkeley I took short fiction writing from Masao Miyoshi while he was in residence at Berkeley. His class has had a lifelong impact on me. When I was a child my family of six lived in Poona while my father set up the Virus Research Centre (VRC) for the Rockefeller Foundation before he moved us to Berkeley in 1954. For the rest of his career he worked for the California State Health Dept. and taught virology at UC.
