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The son of two ministers, John Fink was born in Farmington, Illinois. He attended college at Millikin University and later earned an M.A. from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. He was a reporter at the Tribune from 1953 to 1974; in 1962 he edited the institutional history of Tribune affiliate WGN. After 1974 he left daily journalism and began a career in book editing and publishing. In the early 1990s his talent for fiction writing burst to the surface, and he wrote two mysteries. Fink has taught writing classes at Columbia College and Northwestern University, and still lives in Chicago.

Works:

• WGN: A Pictorial History, (editor) 1962
• The Leaf Boats, 1991
• Libel the Dead, 1992
• Painted Leaves, 1995

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