Bill Dutcher

After receiving a BA in journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1965, Bill Dutcher worked as a magazine editor and newspaper reporter, served in the Navy for four years during the Vietnam war era, then drifted into the oil and gas business.

During his unusual career path, he turned a $500 investment into a thriving, family-owned, multi-generational oil and gas producing company. At age 60, he launched a 14-year battle with Father Time, played out on basketball courts around the nation and including 24 fantasy camps (for men over 35) and seven University of Oklahoma Varsity Alumni Games.

His first book, "Fictoids ... Short Fiction ...Very Short" is a random walk through cultural history from 1220 BC through 2005.

This hysterically inaccurate humor book, written as comic relief from his high-risk day job, is illustrated by famed New Yorker cartoonist Jack Ziegler.

His second book, "How Did I Do That? A Life of Risk and Reward", covers his adventurous boyhood in the oil company town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, through his current life as a fun-loving, risk-taking entrepreneur, seeking to balance his family life as a husband, father, and grandfather with his love of basketball, business, and writing. Now semi-retired, his is the founder and chairman of Anadarko Minerals, Inc., an Oklahoma City independent oil and gas producing company.