Interview with Don Miles, author of Cinco de Mayo
Published March 19, 2008
Do you have a website or blog where readers may learn more about you and your work?
I’m so glad you asked! It’s only a website right now, but I hope to add a blog within the year. It’s simply Don Miles.
Do you have another book in the works? Would you like to tell readers about your current or future projects?
I’m expecting to have the two Spanish editions out sometime next year – one for students taking Spanish and the other for Latin America. Then, there’s the novel which has been on the back burner for a few years, which will come out in both English and Spanish, and I’m going to be in Mexico a number of times before this year is out – recording some DVD’s – for a documentary, for some visuals that Spanish and History teachers can use, for promotional purposes, and some of my friends and family members are mulling over the possibility of a movie. We’ll see. It’s fun dreaming about it.
Anything else you’d like to say about yourself or your work?
Oh, just that a very supportive family has been the foundation of everything I’ve achieved. My wife – that señorita I told you about – became a United States citizen and earned a bachelor's, a master's and a P-H-D, and taught at several universities. The book is dedicated to her. She died in 2006, but lived long enough not only to see both our daughter and son graduate from college and get married, but to see our daughter become a helicopter pilot and our son work at the White House.
Our daughter is now retired from the military, and our son is now the National Security Council Director for Canada and Mexico. I’m very proud of each of them, and very grateful for the enabling role that all of them have played in my life. I might not have ever written a book without them.
Thanks for stopping by! It was a pleasure to have you here.
You’re very welcome! Thanks for having me.
- Interview with Don Miles, author of Cinco de Mayo
- Published: March 19, 2008
- Type: Interview
- Section: Books
- Filed Under: Books: Nonfiction, Books: Latino, Books: History, Books: The Writing Life
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