About the Author

Fredrick Zydek taught theology at the College of Saint Mary for many years. He is the author of a celebrated biography of Charles Taze Russell, a novel entitled Learning the Ways of Coyote, dozens of religious articles, short fiction and nine volumes of poetry. His work has appeared in America, Catholic Digest, Christianity Today, Conscience, Poetry, The Presbyterian Record, U.S. Catholic, Sojourners and many others. Retired, he makes his home in Omaha, Nebraska where he continues to write full time.