Working & Living Around the World

About the Book

Jim writes about his childhood during World War II, his time in the British Navy, his work on oil refineries and pipelines around the world, and facing the results of political upheaval in Africa and the Middle East. Judy concentrates on her memories of building and maintaining a home in diverse places, such as the American Virgin Islands, Brazil, Iran, Clinton, Iowa, Saudi Arabia, and Newburgh, Scotland. Together, they dealt with everything, from an attack of sea urchins in Aruba to being caught in one of the world’s most unexpected revolutions in Iran.

About the Author

Jim Stephenson was born in Sunderland, England in 1930 and grew up during the German bombings of World War II. Judy Berns Stephenson was born in 1945 and grew up in a conservative Jewish family in Akron, Ohio. She met Jim while hitchhiking around England in 1966, during her time as an exchange student at Cambridge Univertsity. They have one daughter, Betsy, who traveled with them as a child.