<p class="biography" <b Holly Dressel</b , co-author of <i From Naked Ape to Superspecies</i , has been a writer and researcher for television, film, and radio for twenty years and has worked for CBC TV's <i The Nature of Things</i . She lives near Montreal, Quebec. </pGeorgeanne Brennan grew up in Southern California and attended the San Diego State University, the University of Aix-Marseille in Provence, and the University of California at San Diego. After returning to California to start a teaching position, Brennan and a friend started a vegetable seed company that they promoted with a recipe-filled catalog. The pair struck success and began writing weekly… columns for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Brennan published Apertif: Recipes for Simple Pleasure in the French Style, which won the Julia Child Cookbook Award in the Food & Spirits Category and The Food and Flavors of Haute Provence, which won the James Beard Award in the International Category.
The author is uniquely qualified to write about divorce recovery. He has gone through two divorces and has researched extensively Jesus teaching on divorce. After graduating from seminary he spent 17 years in the full-time ministry, plus another 22 years as a bi-vocational minister and journalist where he honed research and writing skills. After retiring from both professions, he ran a congresslonal office for seven years, further broadening his understanding of the pain of separation and aloneness that plague our citizens as a result of divorce.