Frederick Blanch

Bitten by the writing bug at the tender age of six, Blanch’s literary ambitions suffered setbacks from anxious English teachers, hoping to preserve some continuity and/or common comprehension of the language, and interruptions by protracted stints as life insurance salesman (six years), entre-preneur/printer (twenty years), composer (ten years), actor (dabbled for five or six years), beekeeper (ten years), non-profit director – television producer (fifteen years), and a long, long time na-ture photographer, none of which derailed a stream of short stories, poetry, plays, novels, and commercial writing. In Blanch’s own words, “The path to anonymity has not been easy.”