William R. Trotter

William R. (Bill) Trotter (July 15, 1943 – February 28, 2018) was an American author and historian.^[1][2]

Writings

Trotter's work covered a variety of genres and markets. His first published work was "Sibelius and the Tides of Taste" for

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 At the age of fourteen he wrote his first novel, Glorious October (unpublished) about the Hungarian revolution of 1956.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 had one son together and one son each from previous marriages. Trotter and Lustig published The Northstate Reader monthly tabloid from 1981 to 1984. Trotter died on February 28, 2018, in Greensboro, North Carolina, of pancreatic cancer.

Works

Novels

• Winter Fire (
  ISBN 978-0-525-93581-0
• Sands of Pride (
  ISBN 978-0-7867-1013-3
• Fires of Pride (
  ISBN 978-0-7867-1448-3
• Warrener's Beastie (
  ISBN 978-0-7867-1328-8

• Deadly Kin: A True Story of a Mass Family Murder (
  ISBN 978-0-929307-00-8
• Silk Flags and Cold Steel (1988)
  ISBN 978-0-929307-01-5
• Bushwhackers!: The Mountains (
  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
  • Republished in 2002 as The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940
• Priest of Music: The Life of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1995)
  ISBN 978-0-931340-81-9

• Word Processing by Anderson and Trotter (
  ISBN 978-0-8144-5356-8
• Ascendancy: The Official Strategy Guide (
  ISBN 978-0-7615-0358-3
• Close Combat: Inside Moves (
  ISBN 978-1-57231-308-8
• Close Combat - A Bridge Too Far: Inside Moves (
  ISBN 978-1-57231-634-8

• "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 Swanquarter" - Deathrealm Win 1993
• "Big Game" - Deathrealm Fall 1996
• "The Bleeding of Hauptmann Gehlen" - The Darkest Thirst, Anon, Design Image Group 1998

References