William Peace

William was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended William Penn Charter School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Physics, having minored in English and Creative Writing. He served four years in the U. S. Navy, the last two as Chief Engineer of a destroyer. Upon completion of his military service, William joined the Power Systems business of Westinghouse Electric Corporation where he progressed through a series of roles culminating in Vice President and General Manager, Synthetic Fuels Division. He then moved to Carrier Corporation (air conditioning) where he was responsible for Carrier’s Europe, Africa and Middle East operations. From Carrier, William transitioned into management consulting, where he had his own successful practice.More recently, he wrote Fishing in Foreign Seas, a business-oriented romance which was published in 2009. In 2011, Sin & Contrition, the wide-ranging story of transgressions by six characters, was published. Ephraim’s Eye, a romantic thriller about a charity in Morocco that provides financing to a terrorist, was published in 2012 and was recipient of a Reader Views Literary Award, 2012 for Adult Fiction, and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The Iranian Scorpion, a thoroughly researched thriller about the drugs trade in Afghanistan and Iran was published in late 2012; it received an honourable mention in the New York Book Festival. His most recent novel, Sable Shadow and The Presence, is the fictional autobiography of Henry Lawson, who, beginning at an early age, hears voices he does not recognise. He attributes one voice to Sable Shadow, a representative of the devil and the other to The Presence, a representative of God. The book has rich dimensions in human relationships, philosophy, religion and psychology. It was selected as the winner, general fiction, in three major contests in which it was entered and runner-up in two more.He particularly enjoys writing about characters caught up in ethical, religious or moral dilemmas. And, he takes pride in the depth of research which goes into his novels.William, now a British citizen, as well, is married to Anna Venturi, an Italian who has a successful food business. They live in London, and have a summer villa on the north coast of Sicily. William has three children, two step-daughters, and ten grandchildren.