William Sandberg

William is a computer scientist and mathematician who has worked in the area of cryptography and computer security for about thirty-six years. Still gainfully employed with a cryptographic product manufacturer based in California, he finds writing a strangely obsessive pastime that he fits into late night and early morning hours, and on weekends when not engaged in gardening, cooking, work-related overflows, patents, and listening patiently to three generations of his family who have needs of their own.

The idea for The Golden Codex Series came to him in episodic quanta in his late teens. In his twenties, he read authors in what is now called metaphysical fiction: Kafka, Hesse, Bulgakov, and the Latin American Magic Realists, like Garcia Marquez, Borges, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, and so on. After graduate school, he looked seriously into writing his novel again and studied with an accomplished British Surrealist writer for about three years. He read, wrote and learned a great deal in that period, especially about surrealist fiction, and also the modern classics. But travel, his young family, and most of all, career, took him away from the dream of writing the series. While never lost, the last few years have been a steady recovery of a project he once suspected was impractical.