John Fink
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Fink 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 with the ”Chicago Tribune Magazine”. 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 lived in Chicago until his death in 1995.
Libel the dead / | Painted leaves / | The leaf boats /