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Helen Hoag never anticipated that she would become a published author. She passed away in July of 2008, never realizing that her stories would be found and published. She and her fraternal twin sis...показать большеHelen Hoag never anticipated that she would become a published author. She passed away in July of 2008, never realizing that her stories would be found and published. She and her fraternal twin sister, Marge, were born on April 4, 1920, in Los Angeles to James and Ethylwyn Brydon in Los Angeles, California. They were the Brydons’ only children.
Their early years were relatively normal as the twins enjoyed life in Los Angeles at their home there and weekends and large portions of the summers at a second home in Laguna Beach. There the Brydons were the hosts of various members of Ethylwyn`s family, the MacMichaels from Oakland, California. Helen and Marge were free to enjoy the beach on the shore where supervision was unnecessary in those days. They attended junior high school in Los Angeles and were the tallest girls in their class. Their father, James, was a very successful salesman and was a former member of the Canadian Olympic Team and still anof a massive heart attack. Of course, that was a life-changing event in both of their lives and they were further stricken by the death of their mother from breast cancer two years later. During the two years after their father`s death , the girls were the sole support of their mother.
The MacMichael family in Piedmont, California near Oakland took the girls in and Ruth MacMichael , their maternal aunt became their second mother and Ross MacMichael became their closest MacMichael cousin. They graduated from Piedmont High School and both entered Stanford University. Helen graduated in 1945 but Marge left earlier beginning a career in the American Red Cross. Helen then worked for Standard Oil in San Francisco until moving to Los Angeles to work for an advertising agency. Having sustained a back injury many years earlier, Helen elected to have back-fusion surgery and was recovering when she met Bill Hoag, a UCLA graduate student visiting his mother in the same hospital during one of his mother`s many visits there for therapy. After an involved and complicated period of time and infrequent dating, they were married in Pensacola, Florida while Bill was serving in the U S Navy. He was transferred to Newport, Rhode Island where their son was born. After being at sea most of the first year of his son`s life they chose to separate from active duty in the navy and transferred to California where they both had a career in public education. Two daughters were later born in California and Helen postponed her professional life until all their children were out of the home. She derived her greatest professional satisfaction from being an assistant school librarian which led to an avocation as a writer.показать меньше