About the Author

Veltisezar B. Bautista is a multi-awarded Filipino American author, who has won seven book awards, including two Benjamin Franklin awards, the most prestigious awards in book publishing. Bautista is the author of six nonfiction books, including the national bestselling The Book of U.S. Postal Exams & Post Office Jobs:How to Be a Top Scorer on 473/473-C/460 Tests & Other Postal Exams to Get a Post Office Jobs, a Benjamin Franklin Award winner; How to Build a Successful One-Person Business: A Common-Sense Guide to Starting & Growing a Company, an Alternate Monthly selection of the Month of Conservative Book Club; Improve Your Grades: A Practical Guide to Academic Excellence, the recipient of four book awards; and How to Teach Your Child: Things to Know from Kindergarten through Grade 6, a Benjamin Franklin Award winner, and an Alternate Monthly Selection of the Homeschooling Book Club.

For being a successful author and publisher in the United States, Bautista was on the cover of Business Monday (January 20, 1997). The magazine is the Monday supplement of the Detroit Free Press, one of the largest newspapers in Michigan. Bautista is the recipient of the 1990 Small Press Publisher of the Year Award, a national publishing award. A native of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija Province, Philippines, Bautista is the only known successful Filipino American author and publisher whose books are sold through bookstores and to public and school libraries in the U.S.

A full-time writer and publisher, Bautista was a long time staff member of the Manila Chronicle, one of the largest daily English newspapers in the Philippines. He started as a proofreader; then he eventually became a reporter and a deskman (copy editor). For a few years, he was a staff writer for This Week Magazine, the Sunday supplement of the Manila Chronicle.

He is a product of the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (major in journalism), in Manila, Philippines. A bilingual writer in the Philippines, writing in both English and Pilipino, he was a contributor to national publications such as the Philippines Free Press magazine. He was also a publisher of reference books for the country’s Department of Education before he left Manila for the United States in 1976 with his wife, Genoveva Abes-Bautista, to pursue his own American Dream. A year later, their five children (Hubert, Lester, Melvin, Ronald, and Janet) followed them.

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