In Transit

About the Book

With wit and sensitivity, In Transit chronicles a wonder-filled journey the author feels privileged to have enjoyed for three quarters of a century. Her slice of Americana includes a happy family and a number of projects, undertaken from home, that have proven crucial to her community and the larger world. The penultimate chapter deals with her maternal association with Islam, which has been traumatic yet rewarding, revealing an Eastern world essentially closed to non-Muslims. This painful experience has severely tested her Quaker values of love and tolerance and greatly intensified appreciation for the wonder and joy of her own life.

About the Author

Virginia Brown was born in Seattle, raised in New Jersey, and educated at Swarthmore College, where she majored in mathematics and met Ken Brown, her husband now for 57 years. Following graduation she worked a variety of jobs, including service representative for the Illinois Telephone Company, supervisor of an Air Force statistical project , and laboratory assistant at Fels Research Institute in Ohio. Since 1958 Virginia has lived in San Francisco. Just around the corner from UCSF, where Ken conducted neurophysiological research, she has pursued exciting and rewarding projects from her home office while raising two sons who have become physicians.