William J. Palmer received his BA and Ph.D degrees in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame and taught in the English Department of Purdue University until his retirement in 2011. While teaching at Purdue he published 12 books (7 novels, 3 film histories, 2 works of literary criticism) and numerous articles on the novel genre and film studies plus over 100 reviews and journalistic essays.His "Mr. Dickens" series of Victorian murder mysteries (published between 1992 and 2002) are forthcoming as E-Books from Diversion Books in April 2015. This is an especially exciting event in that this republication in what has become the dominant reading mode of the 21st Century makes the "Mr. Dickens" series available to a whole new generation of readers.Besides the "Mr. Dickens" series, Palmer has published his Wabash Trilogy, three novels set in the Wabash Valley of Indiana between 1975-1990. While all three are historical representations of that time in that particular place, they take the forms of a sports novel (The Wabash Baseball Blues), a crime novel (The Red Neck Mafia), and a comic novel about theater (Civic Theater).Finally, his three film histories focus upon the last three decades of the 20th Century and he has also written the first critical study of the British author John Fowles and a theoretical reading from the perspective of New Historicism of his favorite author, Charles Dickens.Since his retirement he has been working on a new novel set in post-hurricanes, post-earthquake, contemporary Haiti.