William Cook
William Cook is a Connecticut native transplanted to Oregon in 1989. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, where he received a Master’s Degree in Social Work. Years of study in two Catholic seminaries and a long career as a mental health therapist have shaped (or warped!) his world view. He is spending his retirement with his artist-wife Sharon, who paints her abstract expressionist work in the dining room, while he writes at a desk by the bay window in the kitchen. His fifteen grandchildren are now grown beyond their need for regular babysitting, but there are two great grandchildren so far…
He describes his first novel, Songs for the Journey Home, as a kind of spiritual journey. He has written three collections of short stories, The Pieta in Ordinary Time and Other Stories, Catch of the Day, and Before Our House Fell into the Ocean: Stories of Love and Death. His Driftwood Mysteries, include the novel, Seal of Secrets, the short story, Eye of Newt, the novel, Woman in the Waves, the novel, Dungeness and Dragons, the short story Paper, and his latest novel, Gallery of Gangsters.
