The Flying Fish - Softcover

About the Authors Dr. Eduardo Zayas-Bazan is a native of Camaguey, Cuba. He has an M.S. in Foreign Language Education from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba. In April of 1961, Zayas-Bazan participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba as a frogman. He was wounded in his right knee, captured, and spent one year in prison before being ransomed with fifty-nine other wounded prisoners that needed urgent medical attention in the United States. Zayas-Bazan is a Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University where he was chair of the Foreign Language Department from 1973 to 1993. Throughout his notable career he has been the recipient of ETSU's Distinguished Faculty Award; Sigma Delta Pi's Premio Martel and the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association's Jacqueline Elliot Award. Zayas-Bazan was the first Cuban-American elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and of the National Association of Cuban-American Educators. He has also been President of the Municipality of Camaguey in Exile, editor of its periodical, El Camagueyano Libre, and vice president of Cuban Cultural Heritage. Professor Zayas-Bazan was associate editor of Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. In addition to writing numerous articles in regional and national journals, he is the coauthor, co-editor and translator of seventeen books. Two of his textbooks, Arriba! and Conexiones, published by Prentice Hall, are being used at some 150 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Professor Zayas-Bazan is retired and lives in Miami, Florida since May of 1999.