About the Author
Ed Novak has had many professional lives including book publishing, consulting, higher education, the arts, and government regulatory oversight. His first novel, “Confessions of a Lapsed Altar Boy,” was published in 2024.
He was born in southern California and raised in the San Francisco suburbs. He has lived in Washington DC, Chicago, New York, and two cities in Pennsylvania, Harrisburg and Camp Hill. He currently resides in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Tucson, Arizona.
His avocation is the study of disintermediation. He is a founding member of the band The Stan Smiths, the driving force behind the “Nectar of the Gods” art exhibit on Instagram, and producer of the film “The 95 Feces.” He is a former member of the Seersucker Caucus in the state capital of Pennsylvania.
“In my best job, I occasionally called up the local police, informed them of actions I was about to undertake and where, and ask them not to arrest me,” he stated. “While working as a wet-behind-the-ears office temp, I wrote a speech delivered by Terence Cardinal Cooke to a room full of wealthy donors at the old Waldorf-Astoria in New York.”
He was once the #1 Ed Novak on the Internet.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he was awarded the Morris Historical Medal. He also earned a master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago.