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William Bayer (born in February 20, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American novelist, the author of twenty books including The New York Times best-sellers ''Switch'' and ''Pattern Crimes.'' Bayer has written a series of novels featuring fictional New York Police Department lieutenant Frank Janek. He has also written adaptions of his novels for television, and written for other TV shows. ''Switch'' was the source for seven television movies, including two four-hour mini-series. In all of them the main character, NYPD Detective Frank Janek, was played by the actor Richard Crenna. All seven movies were broadcast nationally by CBS in prime time. Bayer's books have been translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Japanese and nine other foreign languages. He has written two novels under the pseudonym David Hunt, later republished in ebook editions under his own name. He wrote and directed the 1971 feature film ''Mississippi Summer'' which run the Best First Feature Award (the "Hugo") at the 1970 Chicago International Film Festival. ==Personal life== Bayer is the son of attorney Leo Bayer and dramatist Eleanor Rosenfeld Bayer, later known as the screenwriter Eleanor Perry. He describes his family background as secular Jewish and identifies as a secular humanist. During the 1940s his parents wrote and published four mysteries using the pen name "Oliver Weld Bayer." They also wrote a children's book, ''Dirty Hands Across The Sea'', edited a non-fiction anthology, ''Cleveland Murders'', and co-wrote a play ''Third Best Sport'' which was produced on Broadway. His grandfather on his father's side (William Samuel Bayer) was a Cleveland industrialist, co-founder of a machine tools manufacturing company. His grandmother on his mother's side (Anne Rosenfeld) was a world class contract bridge player and teacher, winner of numerous tournaments including the 1932 Spingold Knockout. Bayer attended the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. in 1946; the Hawken School in Lyndhurst, Ohio from 1946–53, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, New Hampshire in 1956. In 1960 he graduated ''cum laude'' from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1962–68 he served as an officer with the United States Information Agency. He has been a grantee of the American Film Institute and of the National Endowment for the Arts. He is married to cookbook author Paula Wolfert, and has lived with her in Tangier, Morocco; New York City, Martha's Vineyard; and in Newtown, Connecticut. They moved to San Francisco in 1994. They currently reside in Sonoma, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Bayer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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