Bill Carter

Bill Carter, a native Californian, grew up on a worm farm near the banks of the Sacramento River. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz he traveled Asia for two years, where he studied Chinese and built a home in Indonesia. In the winter of 1993 he went to Sarajevo, Bosnia with a humanitarian aid group delivering food and supplies dressed as a clown. After several months in the besieged city he ended up making the award winning documentary film, MISS SARAJEVO (produced by Bono). He is also the author of FOOLS RUSH IN (Schaffner Press), a memoir that tells the story of his time in Sarajevo and the love story that propelled him to go there in the first place. His second book, RED SUMMER (Schaffner Press), chronicles Carter's four years commercial salmon fishing in a remote village on the shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska. "Boom, Bust, Boom" (Schaffner Press) was released in April 2014. For more information: www.boombustboombook.com