FRED BAUER has written more than a dozen books, including How Many Hills to Hillsboro?, Everett Dirksen: The Man and His Words, For Rainy Mondays and Other Dry Spells (a book of poems), Then Sings My Soul (with George Beverly Shea), Putting It All Together (with Brooks Robinson), Daily Guideposts 1977 and 1978, The Springhouse Daily Devotional and In the Vineyard of the Lord (with Helen Steiner Rice). Born in Ohio, he has had wide experience in communications, having worked in the newspaper, radio and magazine fields before turning to books. He makes his home in Princeton, New Jersey.