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 swingeing 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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