About the Author
John Steinbacher is one of the towering personalities of the 70s and 80s. He is a prolific author and his many books are still in demand. He became internationally famous as a newsman and a TV and radio personality in both the U.S. and Canada. He is the founder and C.E.O. of the Cancer Federation, where he remains active. He is the editor of The Challenge Magazine. A native of Alabama, he was reared in Oregon and presently makes his home in California.
WHO IS JOHN STEINBACHER?
At one time he was one of the most famous newsmen, authors and radio personalities in the U.S. and Canada.
Ten of his best sellers are presently listed on Amazon.com, including his latest “epic masterpiece”, Wayfarers of Fate. One 30 page booklet, It Comes Up Murder, is listed at $180.00 and a 40-page booklet on the death of RFK is now listed at $98.00. Both originally sold for 50 cents.
In 1970, the Christian Science Monitor called John “a national phenomenon”. Some of his huge sellers include Bitter Harvest, The Child Seducers, An Inward Stillness and The Conspirators, Men Against God.
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| Film star Joan Leslie & Kristine Miller, with John Steinbacher |
As a reporter he covered the Sirhan Sirhan case, the first moon landing and the Kennedy/Chappaquidick story.
He was for years a popular guest on many major TV shows, including The Virginia Graham Show, The Joe Pyne Show and a series produced by Dick Clark in Canada.
Steinbacher remains active as the C.E.O . of the Cancer Federation and as a writer for many journals, including Classic Images, The Challenge, The National Educator and Films of the Golden Age, among others.
On June 8, 2006, The History Channel dramatized destruction of the Segrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, in 1936. It was a page out of Wayfarers, in which that event foreshadows the fate of the novel’s hero
On October 28, 2005, the L.A. Times said the Vatican had beatified seven priests and one nun who suffered torture & death in the Spanish Civil War, rather than renouncing their faith. Again, a page out of Wayfarers.
Read John Steinbacher's new aritcle in Catholic Men's Quarterly - Lest We, or They, Forget