James Wysong has written under his own name as well as a pseudonym, A. Frank Steward. He is a flight attendant who has been flying for over 20 years with a major international airline. The author of Flying High With A Frank Steward (2008), Air Travel Tales From the Flight Crew (second edition of his first book), The Plane Truth: Shift Happens at 35,000 Feet (2004) and The Air Traveler's Survival Guide (2001).

James holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from a London university and has had a wide variety of jobs spanning continents: busboy, waiter, bartender, jazz trumpet player, and writer for a newspaper. For more than a decade he has been happily married to Toni, who is also employed by the airlines, starting as a flight attendant and now is a captain. They are the proud parents of two sons, Oliver and Matthew.

James writes an online air travel column and also works as a home inspector. He has been interviewed on "Martha Stewart Living Radio" (May 15, 2008), and has appeared on the Peter Greenburg show.

He has flown over 6 million miles, encountered over half a million passengers, endured over 1,000 different delays and cancellations, argued with over 500 frequent flyers, flown to approximately 100 countries, and probably offended over a dozen cultures.

His hobbies include people watching, traveling, writing, chess, running, and lucid dreaming. He has completed a screenplay about a young man's adventures through lucid dreaming titled Dream Weaver. This unusual man has also been a member of a private jazz band that toured Europe, “playing everything from nightclubs to opening ceremonies, but 75% of our performances were at German beer festivals.”

Authors who influenced him in his budding writing career include Jack London and Robert Fulghum, who taught him that "you have to live life in order to write about life." His favorite quote is from Jack London: "I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

James loves to make people laugh, as readers of his book know. In fact, his life motto is "He who laughs lasts." He says, "I come from a single-parent home, and when my family would feel down, the stand-up comic in me would be there to lift them up. I carry that onto the airplane, as there has been quite a bit to feel down about these days in the airline business. Without a sense of humor in the travel industry, one won't last long."