Meet and Greet with Peter Cook, Author of Bootleg Heroes

Author PETER DANIEL COOK grew up in Westborough, Mass., and served as a U.S. Marine on post at the American Embassies in Quito, Ecuador, Madrid, Spain and Port au Prince, Haiti. After the Marines, he became a humanities instructor and worked in Brno, the Czech Republic, in Nagoya, Japan and in the Bronx, New York. Cook wrote his Ph.D. thesis, On Master Teacher Values in Holocaust Education at Claremont Graduate University and contributed to the anthology, Becoming a Holocaust Educator, published by Columbia University Teachers Press. He currently teaches economics in Los Angeles. Bootleg Heroes is Peter Daniel Cook’s first novel