Behind the Veil An American Woman's Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

Dr. Debra Johanyak was raised in Akron, Ohio. Her graduate studies included a year in Shiraz, Iran, where she held a teaching assistantship and witnessed the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Debra began her professional career as an English instructor, and later, as an assistant professor at Kent State University before coming to the University of Akron Wayne College, where she currently is a professor of English. In addition to having her book Shakespeare's World published by Prentice Hall in 2004, several of her short stories and dozens of her articles have appeared in various literary magazines and journals.Johanyak, Debra is the author of 'Behind the Veil An American Woman's Memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis', published 2006 under ISBN 9781931968409 and ISBN 1931968403.