About the Author

Vivian Jeanette Kaplan is the author of the book, TEN GREEN BOTTLES, the story of her family's flight from the Nazis in Vienna to Shanghai, where she was born. It has been translated into several languages, won major international awards and has been performed as a play. At the age of two, Vivian's parents left China for Canada, where she still resides. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she majored in English, Spanish and French. Vivian is married and has three sons and four grandchildren. BLIND VISION, the epic struggle of secret Christian Jews, is her second book.