The author has written professionally for 20 years as a general news reporter, public relations director, contributing editor, chief editorial writer, news bureau chief, journalist and a columnist. He has been published in more than two dozen magazines, and has written newsletters for three national commercial firms. As Senior Associate Editor of Armed Forces News from 2000-2006, he wrote the news for that weekly publication. He assists his wife, Wilma Pauline Utter Edwards, in researching and analyzing her genealogical database. Amy Utter’s Journeys: TB and Other Tragedies in Rural America’s Heartland, is Fred’s sixth book.