William J Wallisch

William J. Wallisch is a retired professor of English who's been a life-long collector of military character sketches and tall tales. He's filled many notebooks with "war stories" penned during his own twenty-three years of active duty service. Typical of his essays on military heroism is "In the Belly of the Whale," published in War, Literature, and the Arts. His University of Southern California doctoral dissertation was a study of "The Integration of Women into the United States Air Force...See more

William J. Wallisch is a retired professor of English who's been a life-long collector of military character sketches and tall tales. He's filled many notebooks with "war stories" penned during his own twenty-three years of active duty service. Typical of his essays on military heroism is "In the Belly of the Whale," published in War, Literature, and the Arts. His University of Southern California doctoral dissertation was a study of "The Integration of Women into the United States Air Force Academy." He divides his time between Colorado Springs and Leadville, Colorado. See less