About the Author

          WILLIAM R. COX was born and educated in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey. He worked on news papers in Newark, sports and features, always attempting fiction until he finally broke into magazines with sports stories.
          Since then, he has published over a thousand shorts and novelettes in magazines ranging from Blue Book and Argosy through the Post and Cosmopolitan. he has written twenty books, including several sports yarns for Dodd, Mead.
           In 1950,Cox pioneered in television. He continued to work in that medium and in motion pictures from time to time. His main interest, however, has always been in the printed word.
           His hobbies are writing and reading, oddly enough. He prefers professional sports to the semi-pro athletes in the athletic mills but will walk a mile to see a good high school contest. He dwells in California among the oranges, avocados and Satsuma plums.