William R. Doede

Born in Flint, Michigan, on August 27, 1918, William R. Doede later lived in Illinois and died in Yorkville on September 13, 2007. An obituary describes him as a talented and prolific writer with several novels, many short stories, and poems to his credit, and notes that he was also a graduate of North Central College, a former member of the Writers Club in DeKalb, and a self-taught pianist.

Library and public-domain book sources identify him as an American author of novels, short stories, and poems. The works most consistently associated with him are The God Next Door, Jamieson, A City Near Centaurus, and The Birds of Lorrane, which suggest a strong interest in imaginative and speculative storytelling.

Outside his writing life, Doede served in the United States Merchant Marines during World War II and later worked in electronics and manufacturing before taking a greeter job in Plano, Illinois. Even in brief records, he comes across as a person of wide interests: literature, music, nature, and family all seem to have mattered deeply to him.