William R. Burkett, Jr.
William R. Burkett, Jr. (born 1943) is a native of Georgia who grew up in Neptune Florida, and began writing when at age fourteen he given an ancient Smith-Coronatypewriter. His first science-fiction novel, Sleeping Planet, was published in Analog magazine in 1964, and it was subsequently published in hardcover and paperback in the U.S. and abroad. On the strength of being a publishedwriter, he was promoted to reporter at the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida, beginning a career in journalism which led him from the Bahamas to Pennsylvania to the state of Washington. He continued to write creatively, and had some fiction and…