William W. Lace
(b. 1942)

When Nolan Ryan began pitching for the Texas Rangers in 1989, students in Arlington, Texas, wanted to learn more about their local hero. The children's desire to learn prompted former sportswriter William W. Lace to write his first book, Sports Great Nolan Ryan (1993). Since then, Lace has written seven more books about famous athletes and more than 20 books on historic people and events.

Lace, a Texas native, knew at an early age that he would one day become a writer. When he was only seven years old, he wrote a family newspaper. After graduating college, he worked as a sportswriter for the Baytown Sun and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and as sports information director for the University of Texas at Arlington. Later, he became the vice chancellor for public affairs for Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas.

Lace's interest in history was the motivation for his many subsequent writings, which include The Hundred Years' War (1994), Winston Churchill (1995), The Alamo (1998), and The British Empire: The End of Colonialism (2000). Recently, he visited the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Fascinated with the Native American culture, he wrote The Hopi (2002). The book describes the history, daily lives, culture, religion, and conflicts of the Hopi Indians. Lace plans to write another book on the Pueblo tribes.

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