About Michael Kesler

Michael G. Kesler, Ph.D., a chemical engineering graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University, had a distinguished career in the petroleum industry before retiring in 2006.  He has, since then, written extensively of World War II events.  In October 2010, he published "Shards of War--Fleeing To & From Uzbekistan," a memoir of his travels and life in the former Soviet Union, after his sister and he, teenagers at the time, fled their home in Poland, ahead of the advancing German armies in 1941. 

The book has received praise from numerous academicians and other prominent professionals, and has appeared on the list of bestselling

E Books in Europe (see "Blog", March 2 entry, for a link to the list).

A short story, "Leaving Home," based on Chapter One of "Shards of War," was published in the December 2008 webzine, Ducts.org.   

In March 2009, he published his late wife's book, "Grit--A Pediatrician's Odyssey From a Soviet Camp to Harvard," by Regina Kesler, M.D., which he edited. 

He has recently completed "Hurdles," a fictionalized story about the effects of a woman's cancer on her family state and her children's development, which he is endeavoring to publish. 

Michael and his wife, Barbara S. Reed, associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, reside in East Brunswick, New Jersey.