John Pesta

John Pesta was editor and publisher of The Brownstown Banner, an Indiana weekly newspaper, for seventeen years. A few years after buying the paper, he and his wife, Maureen, began publishing it twice a week. They also built Brownstown's first cable-television system, Banner Cablevision. The combined business was probably unique in so far as the paper's two pressmen doubled as cable installers and technicians. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pesta received degrees from the University of Notre...See more

John Pesta was editor and publisher of The Brownstown Banner, an Indiana weekly newspaper, for seventeen years. A few years after buying the paper, he and his wife, Maureen, began publishing it twice a week. They also built Brownstown's first cable-television system, Banner Cablevision. The combined business was probably unique in so far as the paper's two pressmen doubled as cable installers and technicians. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pesta received degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia and spent a year at the University of London as a Fulbright fellow. Before he began writing novels, he wrote short stories that appeared in various literary magazines. He and Maureen live in the country next to the Jackson-Washington State Forest. They have two children, Jesse and Abigail, both of whom are journalists in New York. See less