Bill Lightle

I live and write, both non-fiction and fiction, in Georgia. One Amazon reviewer said this of my southern fiction: “Readers everywhere will be captured” by my new mystery series. Another said my stories are “told with grace and understanding.”

In 1966, when I was nine, my family moved from Gas City, Indiana, to Albany, Georgia, where my father had accepted a job building aircraft. I came of age reading newspapers and hearing stories, including of the Great Depression and World War II, from my father and his friends. It was through these stories I developed an appreciation for history and politics.

After graduating from Georgia Southwestern College in Americus in 1980 with a degree in political science, I was hired as a general assignment reporter for the Albany Herald and went on to write for three other newspapers in the southeast in the 1980s, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I began a 29-year teaching career in the late 1980s and retired in 2017. But throughout this time I continued to write for newspapers and publish books.

Today I live in the country in south Fayette County, Georgia, with my wife Phyllis, our two dogs, Mercy and Levi and our cat Nigel. I hope you check out her book of poetry on Amazon, Chasing Hemingway. She is a wonderful poet.

Best wishes to everyone and thank you for your interest in my writing.