About Frank

Frank St. Onge has spent a lifetime collecting stories — some through work, some through travel, and quite a few by learning things the hard way.

Born in upstate New York, Frank moved frequently while growing up, eventually living in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia and Michigan before attending Providence College. Those moves exposed him early to different places and people and became part of the perspective he brings to his writing today.

Work has been another constant throughout Frank's life. He started working as a teenager, held restaurant jobs through high school and college, and says he learned as much from those jobs about business and people as he did in the classroom. After graduating from Providence College with a degree in Business Marketing, his path to a career wasn't exactly direct. There was restaurant work, a stint selling cars, yada-yada-yada, and eventually an opportunity that took him halfway around the world to Australia.

That opportunity ultimately led to a career in the lighting industry that would span 41 years. Frank spent 30 years with Sylvania, eventually working nationally and internationally and traveling throughout Europe and Asia. His career included being part of the industry's transition from traditional light bulbs to LED technology. He later spent another 11 years in lighting, including work involving large government projects.

Travel has been a major part of Frank's life as well. Beyond living in Australia, his travels have taken him throughout Europe, Asia, South America and Central America. He has also made it to 48 of the 50 United States.

Along the way, Frank married, raised three children and accumulated enough experiences — good decisions, bad decisions, successes, failures and stories that probably shouldn't have turned out as well as they did — to provide plenty of material for writing. In describing his own work, Frank doesn't claim to be a philosopher or an expert on how anyone else should live. His qualification, as he puts it, is simply that he believes he has lived “a good and full life.”

That same perspective runs through his writing. His stories are meant to entertain, sometimes inform, and occasionally pull a lesson out of experiences learned the hard way — but never take themselves too seriously.

Frank is the author of Web of Deceit and Final Out: The Rise and Fall of an All-Star, with more stories on the way.