Author Biography
Jessica Reynolds Renshaw is the grateful daughter of Dr. Earle and Barbara Reynolds of Yellow Springs, Ohio. She and her 2 brothers were partially raised in Hiroshima, where her father was sent by the Atomic Energy Commission to do a 3-year study on the effects of radiation on Japanese children. While there, Earle designed and built a 50-foot yacht, in which the family sailed around the world (1954-58). As a family they also sailed to the Pacific Proving Grounds to protest American nuclear testing (1958) and to the USSR, to protest Soviet nuclear testing (1961). The Phoenix sank in the Sacramento River in 2010 and Jessica is involved in raising funds to help restore the boat as a mobile historic peace monument, able to sail again for a nuclear-free world. Her other books include Jessica's Journal, part of her diary (at 11) about their trip around the world; To Russia with Love: An American Family Challenges Nuclear Testing; The Reynolds Family, the Nuclear Age, and a Brave Wooden Boat and The Dog Who Only Ate Tacos and Other Animal Stories.
