Bill Issel

Bill (William) Issel is the author of COIT TOWER, TRAITORS, AND PATRIOTS, historical novels set in San Francisco in the first six months of World War II. He is also author of the memoir, BAPTIZED ON THE FOURTH OF JULY: A CATHOLIC BOYHOOD IN SAN FRANCISCO. He is professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University and serves on the advisory board of the Northern California Labor Archives and Research Center. He has also taught at Mills College and Rutgers, and he has been a Fulbright Professor at universities in England, Hungary, and Romania. His books and articles on twentieth century US political and social history have been published in the US, the UK, and Europe, and he has won awards for his scholarship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Catholic Historical Association, and the San Francisco Historical Society. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, clinical psychologist and early childhood mental health specialist Dr. Mary Claire Heffron.