Archive - November 11, 2012

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Writer Finds New Life in his Hands- Potter Ron Arias (Peru 1963-65)

Writer Finds New Life in his Hands- Potter Ron Arias (Peru 1963-65)

[When I first met Ron Arias (Peru 1963-65)  he worked for People Magazine. I asked him what he wrote about and he smiled and said that he covered the Third World for People! Indeed he did. Ron’s first book was The Road to Tamazunchale, published by Bilingual Press in 1992. He then wrote Five Against the Sea, which grew out of an article that he wrote for People. He co-authored, Healing from the Heartwith the famous Dr. Mehmet Oz, published by Dutton in 1998. With Paul D. White Ron wrote White’s Rules: Saving Our Youth One Kid at a Time, a story of a Canoga Park teacher’s response to killing of a student , published in 2007 by Random House. His memoir of his father, published by Bilingual Review Press, was entitled, Moving Target. It came out in 2002. By then, he had left People and returned to his home in Southern California. Rob’s brother, Bob, also . . .

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