Triay, Victor Andres

Victor Andres Triay, Ph.D., was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban exile parents. He has been a history professor at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Connecticut, since 1992. His first historical work, Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program (University Press of Florida, 1998), was the first book to explore the early 1960s program that brought over 14,000 Cuban children to the United States as unaccompanied refugees. His second book, Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506 (University Press of Florida, 2001), was the recipient of the 2001 Samuel Procto...