R. Z. Halleson, Author Biography |
R. Z. Halleson, M.B.A. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, is a retired marketing professional who spent most of her career in the not-for-profit sector, primarily in health care, child welfare, and retirement housing.
She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from South Dakota State University, Brookings and worked for many years as a nurse and a nursing instructor. She grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, has lived in Maryland, Ohio, Caracas, Venezuela and now lives in the Chicago area.
Halleson has traveled to many areas of the world including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America, and also to Southeast Asia to research her newest book about Cambodia.
She is a widow with two children, four step-children, nine grandchildren, and a goddaugher.
Finished Works and Works in Progress
A biography co-authored with Chhalith Ou. From 1975 to 1979, the nation of Cambodia became victim to one of the most radical social experiments of all time. The Communist Khmer Rouge, after overturning the existing government, sought to create new socialist man and new socialist woman within one generation. The result was the mass upheaval of a country and the mass slaughter of millions of people as the nation descended into chaos. Chhalith Ou was twelve when it began and sixteen when he finally escaped. How he endured and how he and his family finally got out is one of the most harrowing escapes ever recorded.
The Death Called Change
An historical novel. In the mid-eighties, the retirement housing industry underwent a massive and sudden change.The Death Called Change is the story of a retirement home manager who found that his personal integrity was at stake as he fought to save the home for which he worked, and found that betrayal was the only way to accomplish his goal.
R.Z. Halleson is creating a series of mysteries drawing from her many and varied backgrounds and experiences. She seeks to explore the nature of good and evil and what role spirituality plays or doesn't play in the events in people's lives.
Getting to Maybe
http://www.gettingtomaybe.com
This web site contains essays written by thoughtful people who have much to say and to contribute to the wisdom of our society, but who do not necessarily have a world platform upon which to say it. People from many walks of life are included as well as a variety of ages and points of view.
Walking Through the Valley
http://halleson.net
A blog by R.Z. Halleson about issues of current interest.
About R. Z. Halleson
http://halleson.com
Contains a biography and a summary of writings and websites.
This novel is awaiting revision. Ambiguous (a working title) is the story of three young men who meet and room together in the Air Force in the '60s. Not having the understanding of gender differences that we have today, two of the men, one gay and one straight, are profoundly affected by the third who is struggling to understand his relationships to women and to men while not revealing his inner self to either of his roommates.