Barbara Billig

Hi! I am Barbara Griffin Billig and I graduated from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis at age nineteen with a degree in biology andchemistry. After teaching for several years in St. Louis, SouthernCalifornia seemed to be calling. There I started and worked at avariety of businesses including pet shops, restaurants, and a realestate brokerage firm. Deciding to take a sabbatical from thebusiness world for several years I wrote, in conjunction with anotherteacher, Bett Pohnka, “The Nuclear Catastrophe”,publishedin 1977. This fiction novel portrayed what ultimately came to passwith 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the Japan Fukushima nuclearreactor meltdown. A new updated edition of this, entitled“THEDISQUIET SURVIVORS of The Nuclear Catastrophe” is now available.