About Elizabeth Eastwood

Elizabeth Eastwood is the pen name of a retired writer, editor, and publisher of curriculum materials and textbooks for elementary school students. A former teacher, she produced teaching guides and authored articles and newsletters about best practices. In the early 1990s, she adopted two Peruvian children as a single woman and raised them in a suburb of San Francisco.

Eastwood divides her time between California and her native Wisconsin where she likes to hike, bike, kayak, read novels, and write about life’s everyday challenges.

A Note from the Author

I used pseudonyms for the people and places in this memoir, including my two children and myself. Elizabeth Eastwood is my nom de plume. I reached the decision reluctantly due to the sensitivity surrounding many of the events I describe. For ethical reasons, I disguised the identities of people I met in the Peruvian adoption world and any immigrants I knew in the United States who might have been undocumented. I also felt compelled in our highly charged litigious world to conceal the identities of schools, companies, and organizations that I described in sometimes unflattering ways. In some cases, I conveyed the substance of conversations and events rather than describing them exactly as they occurred. Except for these changes, I’m with Them represents an accurate account of events as I remember them.

–Elizabeth Eastwood

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