About Southwell Press
Southwell Press, maintained by family and friends, is dedicated to publishing previously “unpublishable” novels by the award-winning author, William Baer, as well as reprinting some of his books that have gone out of print. The first three novels planned for production in 2025 are The Heretic, The Dark Knight of Assisi, and Novel.
William Baer
William Baer is the author of forty books including Times Square and Other Stories; Advocatus Diaboli; Psalter: A Sequence of Catholic Sonnets; The Gravedigger; Classic American Films; Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets (translations from the Portuguese); the Jack Colt mystery series, New Jersey Noir; and the Deirdre mystery series. A graduate of Rutgers, NYU, South Carolina, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and USC Cinema, he’s been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright (Portugal), a fellowship in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, the T.S. Eliot Award, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. He was the founding editor of The Formalist, the director of the St. Robert Southwell Summer Workshops, and the film critic and poetry editor at Crisis.
His various writings have appeared in a wide range of literary, religious, and/or cultural journals including The American Scholar, Chronicles, First Things, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, London Magazine, Modern Age, National Review, The New Criterion, Ploughshares, Poetry, Quadrant, The Southern Review, The University Bookman, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Wanderer.
He lives happily in a log cabin in northern New Jersey and loves pizza, books, sports, and chocolate.
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