Author Profile
William Patrick
As a writer, editor, and publishing executive, Bill has had the privilege of working with some of the most important scientists of our time, including Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar, two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of Science winner E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Jay Gould, and Bernd Heinrich. He has also edited two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene, the Atlantic’s Jack Beatty, National Book Award winning poet Robert Bly, Reinventing Government expert David Osborne, technology gurus Howard Rheingold and Kevin Kelly (the first Executive Editor of WIRED), business consultants Warren Bennis, Michael Treacy, Stan Davis, and Chris Meyer, as well as basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson. He has worked collaboratively with Joey Kramer, the drummer for Aerosmith, the Reverend Robert H. Schuller, World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, University of Toronto School of Management Dean Roger Martin, Harvard Child Psychiatrist Dr. William Beardslee, and the New York Times’ Tim Weiner, whose history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, won the 2007 National Book Award in nonfiction. Other notable books Bill has helped along include the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Measure of a Man and Iron John (on the list for over a year); Colonel Matthew Bogdanos’ Thieves of Baghdad; Joan Borysenko’s Minding the Body/Mending the Mind; and Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control. In 2007 Bill helped found The Journal of Life Sciences, a magazine covering the social implications of biomedical science (tjols.com), where he served as editor in chief. The Wall Street Journal compared his novel Blood Winter to “the fresh early best of Graham Greene and John le Carre,” while the Sunday Times of London called it “moving, dryly funny, macabre, enthralling.”
