DAVID J. JEPSEN
All About Me
Never bashful about pursuing a dream, I walked away from a 30-year career in journalism and corporate communications to fulfill a lifelong passion – history. In 2003, I thanked my employer for a great career and entered the graduate program at the University of Washington. My goal was to do what I’m doing now, writing and teaching history.
Today I’m getting great satisfaction teaching Pacific Northwest and U.S. history at Tacoma and South Puget Sound community colleges. I hold a master’s degree in history and a bachelor’s in communications from UW, and live in Gig Harbor, Washington.
My HP Books
Seattle 1945.
An epic story of four families coping with hate and exclusion in a city transformed by a world war.
A housewife and mother who pounds rivets into bombers. A Negro war hero who faces a racial battlefield at home. A Japanese internee who learns the end of war did not end the hate. A British war bride who discovers the American dream isn’t for everyone. Unbelonging, a novel about a city plagued with racial tensions, labor unrest and cold war hysteria, will shatter the myth of an enlightened and inviting Seattle. Welcome to the City on the Sound where no one is sure where they belong.
