Maria Virginia Y. Morales

Maria Virginia Yap Morales writes primarily about Philippine political and social history. With this book "Ascending the Fourth Mountain," she completes a trilogy of the Filipino story from the vantage point of her birthplace which is the little-written-about southern island of Mindanao. She is the author of "Balay Ukit: Tropical Architecture in Pre-WWII Filipino Houses" (Anvil, 2013) which won a national book award in 2014. She is also the author of "Diary of the War: WW II Memoirs of Lt. Col. Anastacio Campo" (Ateneo University Press, 2006).