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Author & Poet

Frederick de Leon (25 September 1979 - 15 February 2009) was an accomplished author and poet who has been featured on over twenty-five different radio shows across the country. He was the author of the self-published novel Insurrectum Ex Lux Lucis: Rebellion of the Light and the Pulitzer nominated compilation That We Might Live. Over a quarter of a million people have visited his websites and his books are available through over twenty-five thousand booksellers and retailers, including Barnes & Noble, Barnes & Noble.com, Borders, Amazon.com and many others.

Frederick de Leon has traveled extensively in West Africa. He lived in civil war torn Liberia, West Africa for four years during the bloody civil strife before returning to the States in the spring of 1996. He attended Oral Roberts University during which time he studied philosophy, theology and ancient Greek. While there, he wrote briefly for the university's newspaper, was a member of two honor societies, represented the university at the 1999 national Model United Nations and managed to make the National Dean's List.

His first published poem "One of a Kind" was published by the Famous Poets Society. The International Society of Poets featured other poems of his in their anthologies From the Mountaintop, Time after Time and Bending Light, to name a few. In the year 2001, the International Library of Poetry featured a poem of his on their audio recording of collected works entitled The Sound of Poetry. He has received two Poet of Merit Awards from the International Society of Poets at their Poetry Conventions and Symposiums, first in Washington D.C. in the fall of 2001 and in Orlando, Florida in the spring of 2002 "...for outstanding contribution to the art of poetry." Also in the fall of 2001, he received a Poet of the Year Medallion and a Prometheus Muse of Fire trophy from the Famous Poets Society. In 2004, Writer's Digest honored his short story "Anniversary" which is included in his compilation That We Might Live. The book was nominated for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Literature.