VJ Books Features William Bayer!

William Bayer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, son of an attorney-father and screenwriter-mother.  In the 1940s his parents collaborated on several mystery novels under the joint pen-name Oliver Weld Bayer. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, where he majored in art history and from which he graduated cum laude in 1960. From 1963-1968 he served as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Information Agency, writing, producing and directing documentary films.  After that he became a full-time free-lance writer and filmmaker.

His first novel, In Search Of A Hero, was published in 1962. From 1972-1976 he lived in Tangier, Morocco with the woman who would later become his wife, cookbook author Paula Wolfert.  During that period he wrote two novels set in North Africa: Visions of Isabelle (1975), based on the life of the turn-of-the-century explorer and adventurer, Isabelle Eberhardt; and Tangier (1978), his first crime novel, a story about expatriates living in Tangier in which the main character is a Moroccan detective.

Returning to New York, he wrote the crime novels, Punish Me With Kisses (1980) and Peregrine (1981), which won the 1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award ("The Edgar") for Best Novel. Next came Switch (1985), a New York Times Best-Seller, which became the source for the CBS mini-series Doubletake. This was followed by a second New York Times best-seller, Pattern Crimes (1987) set in Jerusalem featuring Israeli detective, David Bar-Lev,

Bayer's novels have been published in a dozen foreign languages, including  French, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish,  Portuguese, Hungarian, etc. His psychological thriller, Tarot, is currently available only in the French edition.

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