Author of:
The Man Who Fell From the Sky
A Talent to Deceive: Who REALLY Killed the Lindberg Baby?
The Badger Game, Snowbird, The Gonzago Principle, A Grave Too Many

William (Bill) Norris is a British author who has been there; done that. In the course of a 50-year professional writing career, which began when he joined his local newspaper as a cub reporter, he has managed to squeeze in a huge variety of experience. From Parliamentary Correspondent of The Times of London at the age of 26 (the youngest since Charles Dickens), to covering the war fronts of Africa, to interviewing leading world statesmen as Political Correspondent of ITN, his journalistic range has been considerable. But between assignments he has managed to be a professional rally driver, sail the Atlantic in a small boat, build his own experimental aircraft and fly it across the United States at the age of 60, and establish the first broadcast TV station in Swaziland.

It may be his restless nature which has constrained him from writing the same book twice - putting him at a commercial disadvantage with publishers who insist that authors should be type-cast. Thus his first book, One from 700 (Pergammon Press 1966), was a humorous account of Britain's Labour government under Harold Wilson; his second, The Unsafe Sky (W.W.Norton, 1981), was a review of aviation disasters; his third, Willful Misconduct (W.W.Norton, 1984), was a swinging attack on the American legal system, while The Man Who Fell from the Sky (Viking, 1987) investigated and solved an ancient murder mystery.

Publishers clearly disapproved of such a grasshopper mind, and thus his latest three books: SnowBird, A Grave Too Many, and The Badger Game have had to wait for the e-publishing revolution to get a public airing. He hopes that you enjoy reading them as much as he enjoyed the writing.

Now living in the South of France after 13 years in the U.S., during which he combined freelance journalism with membership of Florida's prestigious Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College, Bill Norris is currently working on....something. He can be reached via e-mail at NorrW7@aol.com.

 

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