Heather Kirk has written professionally for over 40 years, producing newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly papers, radio scripts, translations, poetry, short stories, and novels. She has also taught writing for about 30 years in colleges and universities. Some of her books are for teenagers; others are for adults. Her second-most recent book is about the Polish non-violent resistance movement, “Solidarity.”Her most recent book is about another pacifist group, the Quakers or Religous Society of Friends.