Joseph Gosler was born in Gronin­gen, theNether­lands dur­ing WWII and after the war he emi­grat­ed to Israel with his fam­i­ly and sub­se­quent­ly to the Unit­ed States, where he has lived since. His life’s jour­ney has been a cir­cuitous one and as a result he has often mean­dered off the main road. This is best exem­pli­fied by the 20 plus years it took him to achieve his BA in His­to­ry and MBA in cor­po­rate finance through the City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York.
For near­ly 40 years he has worked in edu­ca­tion­al set­tings rang­ing from day care cen­ters to pri­vate schools in the capac­i­ty of Busi­ness Man­ag­er. He and his wife found­ed a pre-school called Begin­nings Nurs­ery, have one son and live in New York City. Mr. Gosler retired from Friends Sem­i­nary in 2004, and today is active­ly involved in sev­er­al Quak­er projects, writ­ing, gar­den­ing, trav­el­ing and walk­ing his dog. ​“Search­ing for Home”, describ­ing his life as a Hid­den Child, is his inter­na­tion­al debut.