BIO
WILLARD
THOMPSON

Award-winning author of historical and fact-based fiction.

CHILDHOOD

I grew up in a middle-class household in Manhasset, New York, in a family where reading was very important. My mother taught me to read at an early age, and I was reading historical fiction in grammar school. For hours, I would timetravel to the land of Caribbean pirates, Indian raiding parties, and French sword fights. In the seventh grade, I began writing my first historical novel. To this day, I am still hooked on historical fiction, and it is my primary writing interest..

EDUCATION AND CAREER

In college, I majored in English literature, with unofficial minors in European history and Greek literature. After I was graduated, I went to work in a New York advertising agency, not copywriting as you might guess, but pushing numbers around to tell businesses where to spend their money. I was good at it, but it was mostly unsatisfying work. Eventually, I moved to California and became a freelance journalist and magazine editor. I also learned to write good fiction, ultimately well researched historical fiction..

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