Eduardo Zayas-Bazán

About the author Eduardo Zayas-Bazán is Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University. He was chairman of ETSU's foreign language department for twenty years. Zayas-Bazán has a M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba. He has been president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and of the National Association of Cuban-American Educators. He is the coauthor, coeditor and translator of eighteen books, among them the best sellers ¡Arriba!, Conexiones, and Fusión, published by Pearson-Prentice Hall. Zayas-Bazán is the coauthor of The Flying Fish, a historical novel about the sequence of events that led to a chaotic transformation of political allegiances in the western hemisphere and brought the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe. The Spanish version of the novel, El pez volador, is also available in Amazon. Zayas-Bazán is married to Lourdes Abascal. He lives in Miami, FL since his retirement in 1999.