Frederic Hunter served as a foreign service officer in the United States Information Service in Brussels, Belgium, and, shortly after its independence, at three posts in the Republic of the Congo: Bukavu, Coquilhatville and Lopoldville. He later became the Africa Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, based in Nairobi. While a graduate student at UCLA in African Studies, before journalism, he wrote The Hemingway Play. It was given a staged-reading at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, was presented at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center and was produced by PBS. That led to opportunities to w...