William Bernhardt

William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his “Ben Kincaid” series of books.

With sales of over 10 million books, William Bernhardt is one of the most popular writing instructors in the nation, regularly appearing in Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, and other venues across the country. He has twice won the Oklahoma Book Award and in 1998 he received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award. In 2000, he was honored with the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award, which is given “in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large.” He is the founder the Red Sneaker Writing Center which provides practical information to writers and aspiring writers through seminars, books, and a free monthly newsletter.

William has been conducting a 5 -day writing seminar on the North Shore and has agreed to stop by the Gloucester Writers Center on Monday Night to share his work and answer your questions about writing. . Writer and friend of the GWC Cassy Pickard, who is hosting William  says “One of the special qualities of Bill’s is that it doesn’t matter the level of one’s work; all are welcomed and appreciated”.