Kaare A. Bolgen (1908-2005) was born in Oslo, Norway where he lived until he was 9 when he moved to Rjukan, Telemark, Norway, and was a good friend of Odd M. Magnussen's. Rjukan was a rich indelible time for him in developing a deep appreciation of nature, the arts and sciences, as well as offering many possibilities of self-expression. He spoke of Rjukan often as being a major influence in his life. In the late 1930s he left Norway and lived on Vancouver Island, Canada, before moving to the States to Seattle, Washington where he studied at the University of Washington. A man of many talents, he was particularly gifted in teaching and playing all the string instruments. In 1940, his book,… The Science of Violin Playing, was published and is available through antiquarian book dealers. Throughout the 1940s, he was editor of several periodicals concerned with classical music. In 1948, he married Patrice Bolgen and they lived on Long Island, New York for many years until the call of nature and open space brought them to Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. At the age of 92, in 1999, his book Dead Ends and Detours: The World and Science in the 20th Century was published. As Kaare says in his "Note to the Reader" at the beginning of The Long Norwegian Night, "The accounts of the Underground movements of Europe follow a familiar and fantastic pattern of superhuman cleverness and endurance, and as time passes, truth and fiction become even more mingled into a misty haze of adventure. But working secretly, and sometimes helplessly against the new, would-be Masters of the World was no glamorous adventure. It was deadly dangerous and sordid and full of hard work. It also was a life full of warm humanity, of humor and failure. In a way, this is a story of failure, but it is the kind of failure that lays the foundation of true success, and in the end, we see that through this and a thousand other such failures, one of the most amazing victories in the history of the human race was brought about."Kaare A. Bolgen died in 2005 at the age of 97.