Born into a farming and ranching family in Winters, Texas in 1949, Bill Modisett began writing in his early teens and has continued to this day. Authors who influenced his early work included Hal Borland (When the Legends Die) and Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea). Later, Modisett met nonfiction author J. Evetts Haley (A Texan looks at Lyndon and Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman), and novelist Elmer Kelton (The Good Old Boys and The Time It N more...
