McCormick, William Burton: - William Burton McCormick is a Shamus, Derringer, and Claymore awards finalist whose fiction regularly appears in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Brown University, earned an MA in Novel Writing from the University of Manchester (UK), and was elected a Hawthornden Writing Fellow in Scotland. His historical novel of the Baltic Republics, LENIN'S HAREM, was the first work of fiction added to the permanent library at the Latvian War Museum in Rīga. A native of Nevada, William lived more than a decade in Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine, the key settings of KGB BANKER.