David Haldane, a former Los Angeles Times staff writer, authored the award-winning 2015 memoir "Nazis & Nudists." In addition to his journalism, essays and short fiction, Haldane has written and produced radio features for which he was awarded a Golden Mike by the Radio & Television News Assn. of Southern California. He currently divides his time-- with his wife and two children--between homes in Joshua Tree, California, and Northern Mindanao, Philippines, where he writes a weekly newspaper column called "Expat Eye."