Nicholas Pease, Principal

Nicholas (Nick) Pease started out as a copywriter at the Minneapolis mail-order firm ofFingerhut, but won a graduate fellowship and went East to earn a Master’s and adoctorate in English.

He taught briefly full time, then went to Reader’s Digest as a copywriter, doing themailing piece for RD’s best-selling trade book, DO IT YOURSELF. He joined the editorialstaff and published GREAT PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE, the all-time runner-up.

To live in Manhattan, Pease joined CBS Television and wrote audience-researchreports on hit series. When his department left New York, he formed the instructionaldesignfirm of Linden Communications. LC developed K-12 textbooks and businesstrainingcourseware for nearly a decade.

Along the way, Nick continued teaching part-time, with adjunct appointments atBrooklyn College, NYU, and elsewhere. He currently teaches in graduate programs atthe St. Paul-based University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota.

In 1987 he began seven years as head writer at the New York MetropolitanTransportation Authority, the nation’s largest transportation system. He returned toMinneapolis in the mid-90s, handling communications for two major provider healthsystems. In 2002 he founded ProsePerfect, culminating three decades of writing andediting experience.