About the Author

Daphne Allen Dunn was born an American in Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1906. She lived through the fall of the Russian Czar, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the turmoil in Asia during the early decades of the 20th century. After her internment, Daphne moved to the United States, where she died in 2006 at the age of 100 years and one month in Sarasota, Florida.