Bill Clothier

Born in 1921, William Ernest Clothier was an American journalist and writer of short stories. LibriVox identifies him as a journalist and fiction writer, and notes that he was serving as a Marine machine-gunman on a battleship in Pearl Harbor during the December 7, 1941 attack before continuing his wartime service.

That combination of frontline experience and newsroom discipline helped define his voice as a writer. His work carries the feel of someone who had seen history up close and knew how to tell a story plainly and well.

Clothier died in 2015. For listeners, his work offers the perspective of a writer whose life reached across war, reporting, and storytelling.