MICHAEL HENDERSON is a freelance journalist and the author of eleven books, the latest being "Ice in Every Carriage - An Extraordinary Asian Journey 1952-53, "No Enemy To Conquer - Forgiveness in An Unforgiving World" and "See You After the Duration - the Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II." He and his brother were two of those evacuees and spent five years in New England. Henderson's articles have appeared in papers across the US and other countries. Encouragement for his work has come from personalities as varied as Terry Waite and Zaki Badawi, George Will and Bill Moyers, Marian Wright Edelman and Georgie Anne Geyer, Philip Yancey and Mother Teresa. The Dalai Lama, Rajmohan Gandhi and Sir Martin Gilbert have done forewords for his books. He has received local and national awards.In the autumn of 2000 he returned to Britain after 22 years in Oregon where he was president of the Portland branch of the English-Speaking Union and of the World Affairs Council of Oregon, as well as being on the board of the Oregon United Nations Association. He now lives with his wife, Erica,in Westward Ho! North Devon.He has been a TV presenter, a broadcaster and for more than fifty years worked for peace and understanding in some 25 countries. He is associated with the worldwide program of Initiatives of Change (formerly known as MRA).