William Smock

William Smock is an author/illustrator (The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now), filmmaker (Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper) and translator (Denis Guénoun’s memoir A Semite). Bobby, Lord of Acton Waters is his first published children's book. He honed his storytelling abilities while putting a son and two grandchildren to bed. His interest in modern design derives from work on the Noguchi film and stints with two San Francisco design firms (The Burdick Group and West Office). He lives in Berkeley, California, where his wife and co-translator was a French professor at U.C. Berkeley.