Religious scholar Carlos Eire fled to the United States from his homeland of Cuba in 1962 as one of 14,000 unaccompanied children airlifted out by Operation Pedro Pan. He eventually reunited with his mother in Chicago and worked full-time in several jobs before graduating from college and graduate school. Mr. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1996. At the 2004 National Book Festival, he talks about his most recent book, which won the 2003 National Book Award for nonfiction, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (Free Press, 2003). From the Series:The Library of Congress: 2004 National Book Festival