Frederic Thomas Selak

Fred Selak was born in a car on Christmas Eve. His mother's first words to him were "So you're the little fella who was in such a big hurry!" He's been in a hurry ever since.

He hurried into the world of business and never stopped running, with more than forty years of fast-paced experience. Starting as a marketing research analyst and advancing through a field of suits -- some empty, some not -- he's lived a life that no other novelist has in telling the story of Empty Suits, a double entendre of battles fought by Joe Strate, the hero of the story who survived a world of empty suits only to enter another world of suits about age discrimination.

Along the way, Fred became a writer of award-winning advertising and one of his company's brochures was displayed in the main lobby of the Detroit Institute of Arts, beneath the famous Diego Rivera mural depicting Detroit industry.

Fred lives in Beverly Hills, Michigan with wife Lilian, his life-long love of more than fifty years, the consummate bibliophile whose input contributed immeasurably to Empty Suits. They winter on Sanibel Island in Florida, where Joe Strate fought an alligator.