FJ Rocca

FJ Rocca was born the day after Pearl Harbor, a propitious beginning in an ominous time into a threatened world. Because his youth was spent in the Post-War era, his early adult years in the Post-Vietnam era and his maturity in the Post-Modern era, he has watched the traditional values of the 20th Century erode into the chaos of the 21st and longs for the return of the eternal normative concepts of Truth, Goodness and Beauty. He believes that these ought to be the standards at the root of all the arts, but are nowadays too often swept aside in a frenzy of uninformed and unresolved irony favoring the brutal, the violent, the disenfranchised and downtrodden, and the cleverly evil over which goodness does not triumph. While bad fortune exists, it can be overcome on some level through the exercise of human character. Thus, he writes about people whose struggles are real, but who use their minds, their wits and their moral natures to overcome life's obstacles.

Philosophically, FJ Rocca believes that knowledge is greater than the sum of facts, that wisdom is greater than knowledge, and that wisdom is knowledge born of experience. For him, clarity is at least as important as eloquence, but truth is fundamental to human survival.

As well as a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, he is a published illustrator and a trained classical musician. These experiences inform and enhance the content and character of his work.