John Roper retired to Wilmington, North Carolina in 2007 after teaching social studies in

Fairfield Connecticut for thirty-nine years and coaching Cross Country and Track. He has co-

authored a book on teaching Connecticut history, published by Yale University and written an

unpublished novel, Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars. He is currently working on a

historical fiction set in Germany and China in the 1930s and 40s.