In the 17 years Inge Sargent taught junior high and high school students in Boulder, a few may have wondered about her penchant for putting her hair up in a double bun. They might have questioned the  man-eating tiger hide or the python skin hanging on her walls. But until she published a book about her early adulthood, no one realized she’d been a bright star in Burma’s dark history.

Inge, now 75, had once been to Burma what Princess Di was to Britain.