Harold Gene Diab
Born in 1946, I grew up in Gibsonburg, Ohio, a town not far from Toledo. In my junior year of college (Bowling Green State University), I went to Spain to study Spanish and discovered what seemed to me a lost world—a lost paradise. After a stint as a high-school teacher in Pittsburgh and more studies, mostly language and literature, in the U.S. and Switzerland (Basel University), I came back to Spain and stayed for good. My Swiss wife Anna Gabriel Stocker and I married in Madrid.
We earned our living as English teachers. There was time to read a lot and to travel. I learned how to carve my own figures in marble and to paint; and in time I began to write about the great works of history and art that I loved. Spain, just as I thought when I first came here, proved in fact to be a paradise. And its angels were legion.
Anna Gabriel passed away in 2017. I began to teach English as a volunteer at the Senior Center of Valdemoro, Spain, near Madrid; and there my good fortune continued and I met my new wife Janet Castaño Lindo.
