About Author Michael Ambrosio
The
product of immigrant parents,
Michael Ambrosio* comes
from a rich Hispanic heritage
where family and faith are high
priorities. His father emigrated
from Spain at the age of eighteen
with little more than a few
dollars in his pocket and a
strong academic recommendation.
His mother came to the United
States from El Salvador with
her own compelling story of
courage. Having met in Los Angeles,
they soon fell in love and married.
Michael,
the third of four children,
inherited his parent’s sense
of adventure. Growing up near
the beach in southern California,
Michael quickly took to the
sport of surfing. Through his
many years of surfing, complete
with exhilarating wave rides
and near-death experiences,
Michael was forever captured
by the spirit of faith and adventure.
When
Michael married and started
a family of his own, he began
relating his own adventures
to his children in the
form of bedtime stories. Over
the years, Michael has collected
the biggest hits, (according
to his small test audience),
and refined them to begin his
authoring adventure.
Drawing
from this reservoir, Michael
teamed with
Sacramento illustrator Bob Langan,
to create the I Don't series of children's
picture books (ages 4-8); I
Don’t Want to Be Lunch!
(Spring 2002), I Don’t Want
to Take a Nap! (Fall
2002) and I Don’t Like Mosquitoes!
(Fall 2003).
In
Spring 2004 Michael released
Destiny, Valor and a lizard
named Louie the first in
the Destiny series of
children's chapter books (ages
8 and up).
Scheduled
for release in the Fall of 2007,
are a new picture book It
Takes a Lot of Love, and
the second book of the Destiny
chapter book series, Attack
of the Geckos.
Michael lives with his
wife and six children in El
Dorado Hills,
California and holds degrees
from the University of California
at Los Angeles and the University
of California at Irvine.
*Michael
Ambrosio is Kenneth
Michael San Vicente. Ken took
his middle name, Michael, and
combined it with the first name
of his paternal grandfather,
Ambrosio San Vicente, to form
his pseudonym. Ken’s grandfather,
Ambrosio San Vicente, was
a decorated World War II hero.
Ambrosio San Vicente fought
against Nazis Germany in the
French underground. He smuggled
downed Allied pilots out of
France and into neutral Spain
so they could return to England.
He was eventually captured and
spent two years in a German
prison camp. For his courage
and sacrifice he was commended
by General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
awarded the Kings Medal by the
British government and the Medal
of Freedom by the United States
government.
Michael
also conducts author assemblies
at California elementary
schools:
For information
click here: Author Day School Event Information
Michael
also writes freelance articles
from time to time.
Death
Wave
Father
Lost - Poem
Small
Stuff - Poem
Will
you be my friend coach?
Sitting
Up Front
50
Years Ago Today
Radical
Roomate
Instilling
Vision Into Your Child
Ordinary
Players
Ode
to Poochiegrass - Poem"
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