Albert Eisele

Albert Eisele has been involved in journalism, government,
academia and business for nearly four decades. Eisele, 67,
was a Washington correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch
and Pioneer Press and Knight-Ridder before becoming press
secretary to Vice President Walter F. Mondale. He later
helped start the non-partisan Center for National Policy,
was a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and was assistant
to William C. Norris, founder and Chairman of Control Data
Corporation. In 1989, he founded Cornerstone Associates, an
international consulting firm and literary agency that
represents a number of fiction writers. The author of a
dual biography of Hubert Humphrey and former Sen. Eugene
McCarthy, he is writing a biography of the late Cardinal
Richard Cushing of Boston. He is a native of Minnesota and
a graduate of St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn.,
and completed two years of pre-medical studies at the
University of Minnesota. He also served as a commissioned
officer in the U.S. Army and was a pitcher in the Cleveland
Indians baseball organization.