Ernest Kolowrat

Born in Prague in 1935, Ernest Kolowrat attended schools in the former Czechoslovakia, Turkey and England before immigrating to the United States following the Communist coup in 1948. He graduated from Yale in 1956 and served as a naval reserve officer for three years with the U. S. Pacific Fleet. His assignment to a refueling ship included a tour in the Bikini-Eniwetok area, where he witnessed more than dozen A-bomb and H-bomb tests.

During the decade of the 1960s, Ernest Kolowrat was successively employed as world affairs editor for Scholastic Magazines in New York, director of information for the American Institute for Foreign Study in Greenwich, Connecticut, and director of 10th Anniversary Programs of the Peace Corps in Washington. Since 1971, he has been a free-lance writer, publicist and film maker. His books include "Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School," and "Confessions of a Hapless Hedonist," which was published as a best-selling trilogy in the Czech Republic.