Frank S. Joseph

 Frank S. Joseph’s award-winning “Chicago Trilogy” novels, To Love Mercy, To Walk Humbly, and To Do Justice, tell a story of lives forever changed by racial turmoil that marked and marred Chicago in the mid-twentieth century, a great city going up in flames.

Frank lived it. He came of age in the 1940s and 1950s as a sheltered White boy in comfortable South Side neighborhoods undergoing racial turnover and “white flight.” In his twenties, as an Associated Press correspondent, he covered the 1960s riots that wracked Chicago’s inner city as well as the 1967 Detroit riot, where 37 died, and the notorious 1968 Democratic National Convention street disorders.

Frank left Chicago in 1969, landed at The Washington Post during Watergate, and went on to a career as an award-winning journalist, publisher, and direct marketer.

His Chicago Trilogy novels all have won award after award: To Do Justice (trilogy book III) has been awarded Honorable Mention, Indie Fiction Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association. It also won First Prize in the Chicago Writers Association novel contest. It has been named an IndieReader Best Book and has garnered 5-star reviews from IndieReader, Readers’ Favorite®, Reedsy Reviews, and Midwest Book Review. It is out from Key Literary. To Walk Humbly (trilogy book II) won the New Rivers Novel Contest. It is forthcoming from Key Literary. To Love Mercy (trilogy book I) was previously published in 2006 by Mid Atlantic Highlands. It has won eight awards including the Eric Hoffer Award. It is pending republication by Key Literary.

Frank and his wife, Carol Jason, an artist and sculptor, live in Chevy Chase, MD. They are the parents of Sam and Shawn.