FIRST BOOK AT 21

D’Lynn wrote and illustrated her first book at 21 about a journey alone through the remote areas of Asia. Further than at Home was published by Harper Books and in foreign editions. All her books will be reissued as e-books with far more illustrations than could be put in the orginal editions.

MARRIAGE TO A PRINCE

D’Lynn’s much-publicized marriage to a prince* of Nepal in the Himalayas did not work out because of the Cold War, and she resumed her career. The prince died in 1977, and most of his family were massacred by the Crown Prince at a palace dinner June 1, 2001. D'Lynn had previously been a guest in the Royal Apartments and took photos these very rooms. Nepal contents page.

WAR CORRESPONDENT

As a young journalist hitchhiking overland alone throughout Africa on a dare, she discovered the war of terror in the interior of the Congo and was the first foreign correspondent to go to Stanleyville and write about the ill-starred Patrice Lumumba. She traveled up the Congo River with the expedition that rescued animals including a bonobo, humankind's nearest relative. Kakowet, with later arrival Linda, founded the famed bonobo colony in the San Diego Zoo. For a Separate Africa Contents page, click here.

The second volume of D'Lynn Waldron's memoirs, which is about Lumumba and the Congo, is being prepared for e-publication with far more illustrations than could be afforded in a print book.

INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE IN HONG KONG

After leaving the Congo, D'Lynn was involved in a deadly game of Cold War Intrigue in Hong Kong that made headlines in the British Crown Colony.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

D’Lynn’s travel and culture articles, photographs and drawings have been featured in many popular magazines, in books, and in scholarly publications such as the British Geographical Magazine. In recognition of her work, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of The Explorers Club. Her scholarly photo-ethnography was self-funded with her culture, travel and food articles in major magazines and her photography which was sold worldwide by Kodak's Image Bank.

And exhibition of D'Lynn's images, Paradise Lost, recalls what the remote parts of the world were like before these people had their way of life and their environment destroyed by 'westernization', exploitation and war.

D'Lynn spent two years doing a photo-ethnographic study of the traditional Irish way of life, which was featured in British Geographical and other magazines and is being compiled into an on-line picture book. She did a one year study of the traditional Spanish way of life in Priego de Cordoba in the mountains of Andalucia, and she spent 16 months on the Greek Island of Crete doing a study of the cultural continuities from Minoan times. Both these will be made into on-line picture books.

While a freshman at TCU, and a leader of the student body, D'Lynn learned to fly and was a member of the university team when they won the National Collegiate Flying Championship.

D’Lynn was asked to be the keynote speaker and MC for McDonnell-Douglas’s 50th Anniversary program for the DC3, to recount her adventures in exotic lands with that legendary airplane.

TOP HONORS AT UNIVERSITY

D’Lynn took her BA summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, first in her class at Washington University and a MA six months later. She went from sophomore to PhD in 3 1/2 years as part of the Ford Foundation experiment in accelerated study, in which all length of residency requirements and class load limitations were waived, and she also held the Ford Foundation, All-University and Haynes Fellowships.

D’Lynn has a multi-disciplinary PhD focused on the effect of economic development on traditional ways of life, with doctoral exams in four disciplines.

After doing two years field research in the west of Ireland, D’Lynn did two years’ post-doctoral research in Oxford, and then a year of field research in Andalusia with articles for British Geographical Magazine on Ireland and Spain.

Note: As a Sophomore at Boston University in 1956-57 Lynn Waldron was elected to the Student Council and was President of the self-administered Marlboro House Honor Dorm which attained the highest grade point average in the history of the University through the group study sessions she organized.

COLD WAR INTRIGUE ON CRETE

D'Lynn spent 16 months doing research on the Greek Island of Crete, amid Cold War intrigue that involved the terrorist group N17 and resulted in 23 days of interrogation by the anti-West elements in the Greek Government .

GETTY MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHS

Because of her knowledge of the arts combined with her technical skills in photography, D’Lynn was chosen to take the photographs of the artworks and architecture of the Getty Museum in Malibu for J. Paul Getty.

MUSIC RELATED AWARDS

In 2004 D'Lynn was given the Most Valuable Player Award by the Association of California Symphony Orchestras for her work in popularizing classical music through the media. Photo.

D'Lynn first appeared on the stage at the age of 3 in New York in a benefit concert for British war relief. As a teenager she was involved in professional musical theatre with such friends as Beverly Sills and translated the opera Perscription for Love from Italian into very singable English (thanks to tips from Oscar Hammerstein.)

D'Lynn is once again involved in the world of music, which brings her back to what was the happiest time of her life. Among her other related activities D'Lynn is doing research and development on the super high fidelity 24-bit/96kHz technology by recording symphony orchestras.

D'Lynn is also writing about the work of the people she knows who compose music for the movies, and is also reviewing digital hardware, software and books for creating and editing music and doing sound design, as well as editing video for TV and movies.

After college, Waldron used the socio-economic aspects of her doctorate to design systems for economic development for HUD and HEW that were subsequently used by the United Nations. She was offered the executive position with the UN of directing the social aspects ofthe UN's economic development programs for all of Asia, but she turned it down brcause since she hadn't been able to stop the political corruption in America from looting the programs she had designed, she certainly couldn't stop it in Asia.

One success D'Lynn participated in was to do the research design, pro bono, used by the FTC to expose the abuses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' monopoly trading posts on the Native American reservations.

D’Lynn later did independent overseas field research and problem analysis as an investigative journalist and consultant to businesses and governments on promoting and marketing products such as English cheeses.

D’Lynn does forensic photo analysis using computer technology.

DEVELOPER OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY FOR ARTISTS AND MOVIES

Dr. D’Lynn Waldron is a developer of computer technology for the graphic arts and for photo-digital imaging, movie CGI, and is a pioneering computer fine artist. D’Lynn has written hundreds of magazine articles on computer related subjects and was one of the first to publish warnings of the security dangers of a connection to the Internet.

PORTRAIT ARTIST AND PHOTO-ETHNOGRAPHER

D'Lynn does age progressed and age regressed portraits, which she paints digitally with the artistic skills she developed doing portraits in conventional media (some of which can be found in her books), combined with the science of forensic analysis. Her age-progressed portraits have been featured on television and magazine covers.

D’Lynn’s computer fine art, photography and designs are sold by the worldwide offices of Kodak’s Image Bank, Corbis Bettman, and Getty Photos.

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

D’Lynn Waldron grew up in the world of the Broadway theatre. While still a teenager she rewrote the dialogue and lyrics for revivals of musicals, and translated the opera L'Elisir d'Amore from Italian into the English Prescription for Love for Bruno Frank's production and this translation has been used many times since. While a teenage Theater Arts student at Boston University D'Lynn was befriended by the dean of the Boston drama critics Charles Eliott Norton, her Shakespeare professor, and was his companion at opening nights. D'Lynn was offered the opportunity by Raymond Sovey, another of her professors, to become a set and costume designer on Broadway, but she chose instead to travel the world as a writer and artist, foreign correspondent and a documentarian of traditional ways of life.

While her first book about her travels was being turned into a musical by Oscar Hammerstein (who died before completing it), it was also in development for a movie at 20th Century Fox, and D’Lynn was at the studio for Kruschev’s historic visit.

D’Lynn has done radio and TV, including for the BBC, on-camera and as a writer and photographer. D'Lynn is a voting member of the Music Chapter of BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

As a technologist, D'Lynn has helped develop the CGI technology used in the movie industry. and is now an advocate for HDTV digital imaging in the production of moviesAs a technologist. Among the studios for which she has recently done work are CBS/Paramount in 2006, and so far in 2007 she did the artwork, animation and score for the CNN Special 'Chasing Life'.

As an artist D’Lynn does portraits, artwork, advertising designs, photo-digital repainting, retouching and compositing, as well as Web sites, and creates covers, illustrations including her famous patriotic paintings of eagles, and concepts for books, magazines, CDs, video and DVDs. for the entertainment industry.

NOVELS

D'Lynn enjoys writing novels and screenplays about witty, intelligent, adventurous women with interesting careers, who are attracted to challenging men. Her current project is a trilogy of novels set in the world of movie music.

In "Ariane", Book I of D'Lynn's Santa Monica Trilogy of romantic comedy novels, the irrepressibly mischievous Dr. Ariane Lawrence, who researches the role of sexual attraction in evolution, finds unexpected romance with the dignified symphony conductor Sir Marshall Chalfont, who composes music for the movies.

PRESERVING THE CRAFTSMAN HERITAGE

D'Lynn's home base for 35 years has been on north Ocean Avenue, overlooking the Pacific, in Santa Monica, California. In Santa Monica, D'Lynn has been active in preserving the American architectural treasure Craftsman houses from the vandals who were bulldozing them to build modern monstrosities. She was also a leader in saving the historic Santa Monica Pier with its marvelous carousel from being demolished for a private resort development. The Craftsman houses and the carousel play an important part in D'Lynn's Santa Monica Trilogy.

E-PUBLISHING

D'Lynn is in rebellion against the conglomerates which have devoured the book publishing industry and now pay authors royalties only on the company's net profits (and their accountants make sure there never are net profits!). D'Lynn has torn up print book contracts from publishers such as Macmillan who were VERY enthusiastic about her books and anxious to publish them. Instead D'Lynn will make her books on the Congo and Ireland, and reprints of her other early books, available as e-books. With an e-book she can put in far more illustrations than could ever be in a print book, and the e-books will have interactive features.