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William Lavender

William Lavender was born on December 23, 1921. He received a bachelor of music degree from the Birmingham Conservatory and Birmingham Southern College in Alabama. Then he went and obtained a master of music degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. William Lavender spent a long time working in areas of music, film, documentaries, and theater. He worked as a staff composer and sound recording technician for a U.S. government informational film agency. One of his more famous musical plays is //The Invisible People,// which was inspired by his son, who, as a child had an imaginary friend. lives in Riverside, California.He then went on to write novels about historical fiction. The other works that he has written, besides //Just Jane//, include //Aftershocks, Fields Above the Sea, Journey to Quiet Waters, Children of the River, Chinaberry,// and //Thoughts that come in the night.// His wife,Mary, and him currently reside in Riverside, California and revolve their lives around their three children and three grandchildren.