Books by Valerie Lester

Valerie Browne Lester, the great-great-granddaughter of Phiz, was born in England but spent her childhood in the West Indies. Educated at Harvard, George Washington University, and Georgetown University, she is a journalist and author of Fasten Your Seat Belts! History and Heroism in the Pan Am Cabin (1995). A former lecturer in classical literature at George Washington University, show now runs writing workshops at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. She is married to the jazz musician Jim Lester, has two children and four grandchildren.