Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall

Obviously, despite my name, I am a woman. I have just published by first young adult novel THE BATTLE FOR TOMORROW: A FABLE about a 16 year old girl who fights for the right to live independently following her arrest for participating in a blockade and occupation of the US Capitol. It has recently won a 2011 Pinnacle Achievement Award.

My 2010 THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN REFUGEE describes how intense government harassment between 1987 and 2002 led a 54 year old psychiatrist, single mother and political activist, to close my 25 year Seattle practice to begin a new life in New Zealand. My main motivation for writing THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT was the murder of a postal worker and union activist I worked with named Oscar Manassa. As I recount in the book, Manassa also experienced extensive covert harassment prior to his brutal murder. His death was a personal epiphany - as I recognized that Americans who challenge powerful government or corporate interests are denied the protection of the US criminal justice system. The Seattle police were blocked from undertaking a homicide investigation when the US Postal Inspectors (who are actually an intelligence arm of the federal government) seized Manassa's evidence file.

THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY ACT won a 2011 Allbooks Review Editor's Choice award.

More information about both books(and me) at www.stuartbramhall.com