- William R. Trotter
William R. Trotter (born 1943) is an American
author andhistorian .Writings
Trotter's work has covered a variety of genres and markets. His first published work was "Sibelius and the Tides of Taste" for "High Fidelity" in 1965. Lawyer Rob Newsom III invited him to write "Deadly Kin," a true crime book, which was published in 1989. A research project Trotter started while at
Davidson College about theWinter War eventually became the history "A Frozen Hell," published in 1991. It was awarded the Finlandia Foundation Arts and Letters Prize. A trilogy of books on theAmerican Civil War inNorth Carolina was published in the 1991 and 1992. "Winter Fire," his first novel, was published in 1993. A horrornovelette , "Siren of Swanquarter", published inDeathrealm magazine, was nominated for aBram Stoker Award in 1994. His biography of conductor Dmitri Mitropoulos was published in 1995. He wrote two guides for theClose Combat series of computer games in 1999. A pair ofhistorical novel s set in North Carolina during the Civil War, "Sands of Pride" and "Fires of Pride," were published in 2002 and 2003, and his most recent novel, "Warrener's Beastie," was published in 2006. He has also written "The Desktop General" column for "PC Gamer " magazine since 1988. Trotter also has spent time in Filmography as an Assistant Director for "Ghost Recon 2 " in 2004 and as the musical consultant for one episode of "Live from Lincoln Center " in 1976Trotter is also a classical music expert and collector, housing one of the largest collections of vinyl and CD recordings in the Southeast. He has written on classical music for the Charlotte Observer, the High Point Enterprise, and the Greensboro News & Record, among others, and has served as program annotator for Greensboro's prestigious Eastern Music Festival. He is an acknowledged expert on the works of Jean Sibelius, the subject of his "Winter Fire" novel, and Leopold Stokowski, whose Trotter-penned biography has gone as yet unpublished but has made the rounds of the Leopold Stokowski Society for many years.
Biography
Trotter was born in
Charlotte, North Carolina . At the age of fourteen he wrote his first novel, "Glorious October" (unpublished) about the Hungarian revolution of 1956. He married his second wife, pianist Elizabeth Lustig, in 1983. They have one son together and one son each from previous marriages. Trotter and Lustig published "The Northstate Reader" monthly tabloid from 1981 to 1984. They live inGreensboro, North Carolina .Published works
Novels
*"Winter Fire" (1993) ISBN 978-0-525-93581-0
*"Sands of Pride" (2002) ISBN 978-0-7867-1013-3
*"Fires of Pride" (2003) ISBN 978-0-7867-1448-3
*"Warrener's Beastie" (2006) ISBN 978-0-7867-1328-8Non-fiction
*"Word Processing" by Anderson and Trotter (1974) ISBN 978-0-8144-5356-8
*"Deadly Kin: A True Story of a Mass Family Murder" (1988) ISBN 978-0-929307-00-8
*"Silk Flags and Cold Steel" (1988) ISBN 978-0-929307-01-5
*"Bushwhackers!: The Mountains" (1991) ISBN 978-0-89587-087-2
*"Ironclads and Columbiads: The Coast" (1991) ISBN 978-0-89587-088-9
*"Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939/40" (1991) ISBN 978-0-945575-22-1
*"Ascendancy: The Official Strategy Guide" (1995) ISBN 978-0-7615-0358-3
*"Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos" (1995) ISBN 978-0-931340-81-9
*"Close Combat: Inside Moves" (1996) ISBN 978-1-57231-308-8
*"Close Combat - A Bridge Too Far: Inside Moves" (1998) ISBN 978-1-57231-634-8Novelettes and short stories
*"The Running Back from Yuggoth" - "Fantasy Book" June 1985
*"Bagman" - "Night Cry" Fall 1985
*"A Pinch of Snuff" - "Deathrealm " Fall/Win 1990
*"The Boss of the Seventh Level" - "Deathrealm" Spr 1992
*"A Graveside chat with Diedra Cox" - "Deathrealm" Win 1993
*"The Siren of Swanquater" - "Deathrealm" Win 1993
*"Big Game" - "Deathrealm" Fall 1996
*"The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen" - "The Darkest Thirst", Anon, Design Image Group 1998References
cite news
author = Bill Morri
work = News & Record (Greensboro, NC)
date =1995-07-16
page = D1
title = Writing up a Sweat: Author's Road to Recognition Bypasses Ivory TowerExternal links
* [http://www.trotterbooks.com/ Official site]
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NAME=Trotter, William R.
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DATE OF BIRTH=1943
PLACE OF BIRTH=Charlotte, North Carolina
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