The book was compiled by Kim Hyunju, the granddaughter of Yang Wujo and Choi Seonhwa and the daughter of Yang Jessie. After studying Education and Psychology at Ewha Woman’s University, Kim Hyunju worked as a story writer for TV educational programs and programs for children. In 2000, she immigrated to the United States, and worked as a teacher, vice-principal, and principal of a Korean school as well as a documentary writer for KEMS-TV. She is presently working as a member of the educational committee for public schools in the district of Fremont, California. Thanks to <Diary of Jessie>, we are able to read about the everyday life of the activists who fought against Imperial Japan, and we are also able to learn that they were not different from us – people who loved their families dearly. However, they found courage against seemingly hopeless odds, and they traveled thousands of miles in China to reignite the dying flame to fight for the independence. On sunny days, they lived in fear of imminent bombing, but even in the midst of war and destruction and death, a child is born and she grows up to herald new hope. The diary teaches us that protecting a newborn life was in essence protecting the country as well as protecting the hope for future.