Murphy, Frank Hadley

Frank Hadley Murphy was born in Boston, Massachusetts and comes from an old New England family. In 1993, he had an epiphany with a Pu-erh tea which he describes in his first book "The Spirit of Tea." It is the first book to address tea's mystical and transcendental nature. The first and only graduate of the original American Tea Masters Association founded in 1994 by Tea Masters Donald Wallis and Roy Fong, Mr Murphy has been a judge at Chinese and international tea competitions, contributed articles and essays to national and international books and tea publications, lectured nationally and ha...