About the authors

Robert A. McCabe was born in Chicago in 1934. He started taking photographs in 1939 with a Kodak Baby Brownie given to him by his father, who published a tabloid newspaper in New York. His first visit to Greece was in 1954, equipped with a Rolleiflex with a 75 mm, f/3.5 lens and Plus-X film. In 1957, at the request of the National Geographic Magazine, he traveled widely in the Cyclades taking photographs. He has continued to photograph Greece. His 15 published books encompass Greece, Cuba, China, Antarctica, and Central Park in New York City. A new book, “Mykonos: Portrait of a Vanished Era,” has just been issued. Ongoing projects include: “The Greeks and Their Seas,” “Santorini: Portrait of a Vanished Era,” “Kasos 1965,” “A Portrait of Patmos” and “The Waterways of France.” He has made three visits to the Strofades, including a memorable visit with Father Gregory in 2005. Katerina H. Lymperopoulou (b. 1968, Athens) has been working as a journalist for the last 30 years – following in the footsteps of her father, a Greek pentathlon and long jump champion and one of the pioneers of sports journalism in Greece, Hary A. Lymperopoulos. She graduated from the University of Athens’ School of Philosophy and also has a postgraduate degree from the same institution. She has worked for some of Greece’s largest newspapers (Apogevmatini, To Vima). Her marriage to the Zakynthian Dionysis I. Tsilimigras has connected her closely with the Ionian islands and the Strofades.