John
Sack was born in 1938, in Springfield,
Ohio, USA.
He currently lives in southern Oregon.
Son Bjorn is a chiropractor in southern California
and daughter Bryana is a law student in Oregon.
He
has a BA in English from Yale
University and an MA in Creative
Writing from the University
of Washington. For most of
his employed years he worked as a technical writer in the computer and
astrophysical fields. The Franciscan
Conspiracy is his first adult novel, although he has previously
published computer textbooks and a young adult novel, The
Wolf in Winter, based on the early wanderings of St. Francis of
Assisi (Paulist Press, 1985).
Research for the young adult book inspired The Franciscan Conspiracy, which explores
more deeply the early history of the Franciscan Order.
As
a young man, John spent two years under the tutelage of Thomas Merton
at Our Lady of Gethsemane, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky.
He later trained in Swami Muktananda’s Hindu ashram in Ganeshpuri,
India. Now retired,
he expects spiritual themes to assume a greater role in his writing,
be that fiction or nonfiction.
