Jamshid Pishdadi was born in Yazd,
Iran in 1923, and developed a taste for Persian literature and history
from an early age. He launched his career as an educator at age 18,
first teaching at Zoroastrian schools in Yazd and vicinity and then
moving on to Tehran. He assumed the vice presidency of Tehran's Firoz
Bahram Zoroastrian high-school for boys, a position he discharged with
great distinction. In 1981, in the wake of the Islamic revolution that
beset his beloved mother land, Mr. Pishdadi and his wife Farangis left
Iran for the United States to live close to their three daughters in the
San Francisco Bay area.
