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by Kerstin Ingegerd Williams (Editor), Temple Emmet Williams (Author)
Temple's first book is a best-selling and award-winning memoir called Warrior Patient: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts. It received a B.R.A.G. Medallion, and it also won a Gold Medal at the Reader's Favorite Book Awards in Miami, Florida. It won an International Red Ribbon at the Wishing Shelf Awards in Europe. The book is a semifinalist in the Publishers Weekly BookLife Awards.Warrior Patient is a humorous, true story of how a patient survives the best medical system that civilization has ever known (which tried but failed to kill him several times as it treated the medical problems created by the attempts to cure his problems).Wrinkled Heartbeats is Temple's 1st novel. Midwest Book Reviews calls it: "a deftly crafted and extraordinary novel, very highly recommended." It was chosen as a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, sometimes called the Sundance Film Festival of Books. It received the award as one of the best First Novels of the year. It also won the Silver Medal in the Action Fiction category at the Readers' Favorites Book Awards, as well as the Awesome Indies medallion. It is the story of a war hero who tries to sell his luxury home in Boca Raton, Florida, only to discover that the listing agreement includes an expiration date on his life. The only person who can save him is the person hired to kill him.Poison Heartbeats is Temple's 2nd novel, already reviewed as a unique look at what might happen if ISIS or ISIL tried to poison America's waterways. It deals with terrorists and United States military heroes in Africa as well as in the USA. Can Homeland security really save America? The book was awarded the Awesome Indies medallion shortly after publication. It won the thriller category at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It was the solo Action/Adventure medalist at the New Apple E-book Awards. It was a semi-finalist at the Publishers Weekly BookLife Awards and an finalist at the Book Excellence awards.
Author Biography
Temple was born in Cleveland, Ohio, educated at The Hotchkiss School and Yale University. He became a journalist and was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize as an undercover reporter for the World Telegram & Sun in New York City. He was the Managing Editor of News/Check, an international news magazine in Africa, and then an Editor at the Reader's Digest in the United States. He worked as a copywriter at large ad agencies like Ogilvy & Mather and Leo Burnett. He was the Creative Director of the fifth largest ad agency in Great Britain, part of the KMP Group in London, England. He lived in Africa for six years and in Europe almost as long. He and his wife, who is also his primary editor, now live in Boca Raton, Florida.
