Fred R. Bleak­ley is a retired finan­cial edi­tor and writer, hav­ing spent most of his career at Busi­ness Week, the Insti­tu­tion­al Investor, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Jour­nal. He was a win­ner of the John Han­cock Insur­ance Co. Award for Excel­lence in Busi­ness and Finan­cial Jour­nal­ism, and researched the Holo­caust of Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ry after inter­view­ing Auschwitz escapee Czes­law Mor­dow­icz for an arti­cle in the Wall Street Jour­nal. Bleak­ley is a grad­u­ate of Holy Cross Col­lege (BA) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri School of Jour­nal­ism (MA). He lives in Port­land, Maine with his wife Jane Berentson.