"You Had Such an Unusual Childhood"
Essays on Growing Up in the Middle East during World War II
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Marilyn Sutton Loos was born in Jerusalem, Palestine to a British Anglican and American Quaker. She was taught by a British governess through third grade, attended the American Community School of Beirut, Lebanon as a boarder, from fourth through ninth grade, and Westtown Friends School (in Pennsylvania) through twelfth grade. She earned her BA in French from Smith College, spending her Junior year in France, and an MA in Arab Studies from the American University of Beirut. She worked as a secretary in the Psychology Department of the American University of Beirut, then as a translator from French into English for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWAPRNE). Returning to the USA, she worked as a secretary, and then an administrative assistant, for the American Friends Service Committee. She married Gordon M. Loos and they raised two children, Jonathan and Elizabeth. When they were respectively in high school and middle school, she returned to the employment world as a paraprofessional in the library of the Radnor High School, and later as a technical editor of instruction books at the Protection and Control department of General Electric. She is now a retired widow, living in Haverford, PA. 
