William was born in Morehead City, NC. He moved around a lot as a child living in various places such as NY, GA, FL, VA, until his family settled back in NC, where he lives now. He runs the blog Bang Noir and writes articles for examnier.com.
His debut novel, Bang was published in December 2010. He is currently working on several new projects. William Butler's inspirations are authors such as Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, J. T. Leroy, Jacqueline Susann, Anias Nin and Tennesse Williams. He tends to write about characters who are not entirely friendly. It's not all rainbows and butterflies for his novels or short stories.
But Noir is a part of what he writes.