My name is Will Napier and I am an English Professor and a freelance writer. I was born in West Virginia to an American father and a British mother. As a child I displayed a strong imagination. I remain easily distracted. My family moved several times before settling in Atlantic Beach, Florida in the late 80’s. Each move brought new experiences that I continue to feed off when producing fiction. Frequent trips to the United Kingdom gave me taste of life outside of America and made for an easy transition when, in 1999, I returned to Scotland.
During my time in Scotland I completed two post-graduate degrees at the University of Glasgow. The first, a Master's in Creative Writing, helped me get a start on my first novel Summer of the Cicada. A portion of my second novel, Without Warning, is included in the dissertation for a PhD. The book, titled The Haunted House of Memory in the Fiction of Stephen King, was the first successful PhD granted by a UK university concerning the works of America's best-selling patriarch of horror.
I returned to Florida in 2007 and I now live in Atlantic Beach, Florida with his wife and our four children. My fiction has appeared in Nerve Magazine, The Sunday Herald Magazine, Confluence, Arena, The Independent and The Knuckle End: An Anthology of Emerging Scottish Literary Talent. My first novel Summer of the Cicada was released by Jonathan Cape Publishing, a division of Random House UK, in March 2005. My second novel Without Warning was also published by Jonathan Cape.
I am currently putting the final touches on a new novel which will be returned to my agent and publisher very soon!
Again, thanks for visiting my site.
- Will
During my time in Scotland I completed two post-graduate degrees at the University of Glasgow. The first, a Master's in Creative Writing, helped me get a start on my first novel Summer of the Cicada. A portion of my second novel, Without Warning, is included in the dissertation for a PhD. The book, titled The Haunted House of Memory in the Fiction of Stephen King, was the first successful PhD granted by a UK university concerning the works of America's best-selling patriarch of horror.
I returned to Florida in 2007 and I now live in Atlantic Beach, Florida with his wife and our four children. My fiction has appeared in Nerve Magazine, The Sunday Herald Magazine, Confluence, Arena, The Independent and The Knuckle End: An Anthology of Emerging Scottish Literary Talent. My first novel Summer of the Cicada was released by Jonathan Cape Publishing, a division of Random House UK, in March 2005. My second novel Without Warning was also published by Jonathan Cape.
I am currently putting the final touches on a new novel which will be returned to my agent and publisher very soon!
Again, thanks for visiting my site.
- Will