William R. Black

When I started college I had a strong desire to be a writer. That desire was pushed to the background as I became a transport researcher and professor. Railroads became an interest for more than a decade of my life and my writing interests were sidetracked except for papers in academic journals, two books on railroad policy and a major textbook on transportation. Work on environmental and sustainability issues led to one of the first textbooks on sustainable transportation and my first novel, which couples the environmental background with a long term interest in espionage of the Cold War era. I have slowly moved into the non-fiction area with the history of some court cases related to a counterfeiting incident from the 1860s in the U.S. Currently I am preparing a biography of a World War I war correspondent named Percival Phillips.