Carlos Eire
Carlos Eire was born in Havana in 1950 and left his homeland in 1962,
one of fourteen thousand unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by
Operation Pedro Pan. After living in a series of foster homes, he was
reunited with his mother in Chicago in 1965. Eire earned his PhD at Yale
University in 1979 and is now the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of
History and Religious Studies at Yale. He lives in Guilford,
Connecticut, with his wife, Jane, and their three children. For more about Carlos and his works, go to No website