In the same way that he comically connected the rules of baseball to the rules of adolescent love in Getting to First Base with Danalda Chase, Matt Beam makes another inspired yet never over-the-top link between the lessons of history and the lessons of life that every teen must master.
Matt Beam is a writer, freelance journalist, photographer and teacher. He has taught in New Zealand, Fiji, Guatemala, Vancouver and Toronto. His first book, Getting to First Base with Danalda Chase, will be published by dutton in the US in 2007. Matt Beam lives with his partner, Lorraine, in Toronto.