William Trotter | The Sun Magazine

William Trotter

William Trotter is a Greensboro, North Carolina writer who concentrates most of his energies on fiction projects, although his lifelong interest in military history has engendered an as-yet-unpublished book on the Russo-Finnish War, as well as articles for several history magazines.

— From November 1985
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Red Dawn Over Tweetsie

When I saw “Red Dawn,” I realized that a private and relatively innocent part of my adolescence had become tribalized on a mass scale, and from that fact flowed a palpable undercurrent of menace that had never been there for us.

November 1985
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