Maureen Buick is the author of Finding Bomb Boogie: A Daughter’s Search to Rediscover her Father—the World War II Bomber Boy, Prisoner of War, and American Veteran. Maureen is a retired registered nurse specializing in adult critical care, neonatal critical care, and administrative nursing. She became a World War II history buff after she retired and had the opportunity to research her father’s war story.  Tracing her father’s footsteps during World War II and the years leading up to the war, Maureen’s research took her to Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Panama, and Austria. The highlight of her travels was when she visited Bassingbourn, the Air Force Base in East Anglia, England, where her father flew bombing missions to Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe.  

Maureen is a member of the 91st Bomb Group Memorial Association and serves on their board as editor of the quarterly newsletter, The Ragged Irregular. She is also a member of the 8th Air Force Historical Society and the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society.

Maureen lives with her husband in San Francisco and spends most of her time traveling between Lake Tahoe and Sonoma County. She is an avid skier and enjoys hiking and gardening when she is not busy writing. She and her husband have two grown children and two grandsons, whom Maureen buys model airplanes—mostly B-17s—every chance she gets. This is her first book. She is working on a second book about World War II prisoners of war.