William R. Trotter was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina,
and educated at Davidson College, where he earned a B.A. in
European History. He has worked as a regional music critic, a book
reviewer, and a freelance historian and feature writer. Trotter has
published twelve books as well as many articles--in The
Independent (North Carolina), Spectator Magazine, the
American Record Magazine, Film Culture, Military
History Monthly, and dozens of other magazines. Since 1987, he
has been a senior writer for PC Gamer Magazine. In 1995,
Trotter won the Finlandia Foundation's Arts and Letters Prize for
A Frozen Hell, and the book is required reading for the 2nd
Marine Division. In addition, his biography of Mitropoulos,
Priest of Music: The Life and Times of Dimitri Mitropoulos,
was selected as one of the "ten best 'arts' books of the year" by
National Public Radio, and one of his novellas has been nominated
for a Bram Stoker Award. William Trotter lives with his wife and
their youngest son in Greensboro, North Carolina.