Walter Fadness was born on a farm in North Dakota, close to the small town of McHenry, in 1936. He attended and graduated from McHenry Public School in 1954. He worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad and then for the United States Postal Service as a city letter carrier, retiring in 1998. He served in the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1962. He began logging vanity license plates after retirement, finally logging over three thousand plates. Sometime in 2015, he decided to try to publish a vanity license plate word search puzzle book. He hopes many puzzle book enthusiasts will enjoy the book very much.