William R. Drennan

William R. Drennan, author of _Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders_, is an Emeritus Professor out of the University of Wisconsin System. He now teaches English literature part-time at Appalachian State University, having retired to a mountain cottage in Blowing Rock, NC, in 2007. He received his B.A. in English (1966) from the University of Florida and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Renaissance English Literature from the University of South Florida (1983) and was a seminarian at Yale, studying the English Renaissance lyric there under the luminous Thomas M. Greene. He enjoyed a twenty-six-year career in the UW System, mostly at UW-Baraboo/Sauk County, in the virtual shadows of Wright's Taliesin, and is the author of dozens of published scholarly articles. His out-of-the-classroom passions include the Philadelphia Phillies, the Green Bay Packers, Martin guitars, and golf in the North Carolina mountains. And, of course, his beloved wife Beth and three remarkable children. Oh, also three dogs-- Bambi, Jack, and Midey--accrued largely because the aforesaid three remarkable children have yet to produce progeny. Currently attending an evangelical Anglican church, his own theological background is grounded in Eastern Orthodoxy. He's a happy man, all told.