William J. Atkins
William J. Atkins wrote
his first full-length novel after thirty years as an international
financial services executive. His life experiences in international
sales and marketing exposed him to the cultural cross currents that
feed the characters and places in his book. He is a graduate of
Hobart College, where he received a bachelors degree in
philosophy in 1975. He also studied Middle Eastern history at
Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1973, he was evacuated
from Eilat, Israel, days before the beginning of the Yom Kippur War
between Israel and Egypt. He fled to a kibbutz in Beersheba, where
he was educated first hand about Israel's conflict with the Arab
world. William and his wife Betsy split time between homes in
Indiana, the Bahamas, and Canada. He is an avid fisherman and
outdoorsman who kayaks, bikes, runs, and hikes as much as he can.