Already a well-regarded Bible teacher, Columbian scholar, and published historian, Kay Brigham's life may have best prepared her for her latest work, For Those Who Love, Time is Not: A World War II True Story of Unconquerable Love and Faith -- a narrative compilation of her father's World War II era letters.

The eldest of the late Navy Commander Millard J. "Mike" Klein's three children, Kay was educated at St. Catherine's School in Virginia and graduated summa cum laude from Rollins College with a B.A. in Spanish, after intensive studies in Madrid through Smith College's Junior Year Abroad Program. Kay then earned a Masters degree in Spanish Literature and History as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Claremont Graduate School. She was well on her way to a Doctorate in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, when she met her husband of over forty years, Miami lawyer Toby Prince Brigham.

After a teaching career and raising their four children, Kay returned to her academic pursuits, beginning with the publication of Revelation Made Easy, a now popular Bible study guide, which she wrote in both English and Spanish.

Her long held interests in Spanish literature, Biblical studies, and naval history then led her to the Cathedral of Seville, Spain where she exhaustively studied Columbus's Book of Prophecies, handwritten in Latin and Old Spanish. That research culminated in her acclaimed book, Christopher Columbus: His Life and Discovery in the Light of His Prophecies, and award-winning English translation of the complete medieval text, Christopher Columbus's Book of Prophecies (Editorial CLIE, April 1991), both of which were published for the Quincentenary of the Discovery of America.

Kay then turned her historian talents to a most emotional subject -- the life, career, and character of her own father. Though always proud of his legacy, she had never researched the intimate details of his life, for fear of awakening a dormant grief. But in 1995, encouraged by the 50th Anniversary of the victory in Europe and inspired by her mother's wish, Kay decided to undertake the loving labor of compiling her father's wartime letters for the family.

While scrambling to save family heirlooms from a hurricane in 1992, Kay had coincidentally discovered her mother's desire that this be done. As the storm approached, Kay uncovered her father's letters, bound together with this "foreword" by her mother:
My dear children: You were so young that day in October of 1943. You remember your father but vaguely. I can tell by your reminiscing that he is the shadowy figure that came home from the sea and gave our home a holiday air, laughed with us and entertained us, and, with a jaunty wave of his hand and a kiss all around, left us to wait long weeks in daily routine until he returned again. He is an attractive acquaintance to you, and I want you to know and love him as I did. I learned to know and love him through his letters, for, should I count the days I had been with him before we were married, I should not need more than your fingers to count upon. I've kept all his letters, and he kept mine and took them with him and his ship beneath the blue waters of the Mediterranean. I shall tell you our story through his letters and, as well as I can remember, my answers to them. Devotedly, Your Mother.

In the quest to fulfill her mother's wish, Kay uncovered a story of love and heroism so compelling that it had to be shared with not only her family, but also the broader American family. Her investment in For Those Who Love, Time is Not is sure to enrich and inspire this generation of Americans.

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