Mark J. Curran is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He has now written fifty-six books, eight in academic circles before retirement, forty-eight with author publishing since retirement. Color cover images and summaries of the books appear on his website: www.currancordelconnection.com. His e-mail address is: profmark@ asu.edu. The books run the gamut from travel, teaching and research in Latin America in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and especially Brazil, and to a lesser extent in Spain and Portugal. Also, there are accounts as cultural speaker on LEX - National Geographic Explorer trips, autobiographic books from the farm near Abilene, Kansas, and Jesuit education. And the fictionalization of all the above. The most recent series is "The Scamp Odyssey," travels with Keah from 2004 to 2022.