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About the Author
Hyde Flippo was born in Roswell, New Mexico (USA) in 1942. (Note: Those supposed UFOs and aliens did not arrive until five years later in 1947.) He is happy to share his June 22 birthday with the late Austrian-American film director Billy Wilder. After growing up in California and North Carolina, Flippo has lived in Reno, Nevada since 1960. He is now a retired high school teacher (of German, natürlich) and a busy webmaster. For 10 years (1998-2008) he also taught German online at About.com. Prior to The German Way, his first published book, he had written several published articles on a variety of topics, including early German cinema, the fate of foreign language study in the U.S., and software reviews. He has also had six of his architectural photographs published in a textbook for interior designers. His latest publication is When in Germany, Do As the Germans Do. He also co-authored Deutsche Sagen und Legenden (German Legends) with Herb Kernecker. All three books are available from Amazon.com.
The author enjoys ein Glas Wein.
Photo by Cheryl Flippo
The author is married and has two grown sons whose late mother came from Graz, Austria (yes, Arnold's hometown). He became a grandfather for the first time in 2000. Since his first European journey back in 1967, he has spent much time there, particularly in the German-speaking countries. As a teacher he frequently took groups of students on school exchange trips, in addition to private trips to Europe and Mexico. As a result of his experiences and many friends in the German-speaking world, Flippo began writing The German Way in the summer of 1992. Actually, the working title was “Germany for Beginners” and he didn't know the end result would be called The German Way until NTC Publishing (now McGraw-Hill) asked him to write the German part of that series. Since the author had room for only about half of his material and resources in The German Way and When in Germany, there are still a few more books to come out of his computer. A book version of this cinema site is also in progress.
The author and his wife Cheryl continue to travel in Europe and the German-speaking countries from time to time, visiting friends, doing more book research, taking pictures, and enjoying the culture.
CONTACT THE AUTHOR: hflippo2001@yahoo.com
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