1. William Bayer is an American novelist, the author of twenty-one books including The New York Times best-sellers Switch and Pattern Crimes.
14 Facts About William Bayer
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William Bayer has written adaptions of his novels for television, and written for other TV shows.
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William Bayer's books have been translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Japanese, and nine other languages.
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William Bayer has written two novels under the pseudonym David Hunt, later republished in ebook editions under his own name.
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William Bayer wrote and directed the 1971 feature film Mississippi Summer which won the Best First Feature Award at the 1970 Chicago International Film Festival.
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William Bayer describes his family background as "secular Jewish" and identifies as such.
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William Bayer attended the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC; Hawken School in Lyndhurst, Ohio, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.
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William Bayer has been a grantee of the American Film Institute and of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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William Bayer is married to cookbook author Paula Wolfert, and has lived with her in Tangier, Morocco; New York City, Martha's Vineyard; and in Newtown, Connecticut.
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William Bayer's nocturnal prowls through the Tenderloin district take on a terrible purpose after the bizarre murder of a handsome street hustler who was her favorite model and friend.
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William Bayer is a bona fide novelist, you first think to yourself, but it is really the combination of the two, formula writer and writer-writer that puts Mr William Bayer in a special niche.
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William Bayer keeps scrupulously the narrative promises he has made and implied, the strands woven so cleverly and in such complex patterns, dyed with a strong influence of atmosphere, that one proceeds willingly, even hastily, through the close-packed pages.
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William Bayer conceals what he is up to with considerable skill until the reader is firmly hooked and it is too late to back out.
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William Bayer received the 1994 Prix Calibre 38 for the French edition of Mirror Maze, and the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for best mystery for The Magician's Tale.