Jackson, William

William Jackson was born on the tiny island of Utila, in the Bay Islands of Honduras. They were a British colony for several years, the early settlers arriving there from the British Isles, via the Cayman Islands. At the young age of eleven he was lured to the plains of Western Kansas, close to Dodge City.

Bill knew he wanted to write from the time he was high school editor of the small junior class paper. He remembers the prod of excitement seeing something he had written mimeographed on the cheap paper and cranked out by hand. And The Sea Shall Hide Them is his first published novel. He ha...