America has done shortage of talent, and one among such huge talent in America is –. He is one of the most popular American writers and has written a lot of books and scripts during his career. He was born on December 4, 1924, in Woodstock, Georgia. He is not only the popular writer of America, but he is also one of the richest people in the list of Georgia. Georgia does not have a lot of rich people, but still, Bill was quite a name in the list of the richest person from Georgia for a very long time. He was a writer by profession and died at the age of 81.

Biography

Bill was born in Woodstock, Georgia, and was not a writer from the beginning of his career. At the beginning of his life, he suffered a lot of things and was not from a very rich family. He had to face a lot of challenges, and his family was not among the richest families in the beginning. As a starter to his career, he was fond of photography and journalism. Pursuing his career, he got educated in these two particular fields and also become a very popular photographer and journalist in his time. Later on, due to their passing through age, he developed an interest in novel writing. As he decided to pursue his pending life in this particular niche, he began to write novels at the age of 50. 

Sharkey‘s machine was his first novel ever published, and it was the same novel on which a movie was made in 1981. The movie was directed and also played by Burt Reynolds, who was a popular actor back then. This popular actor was not only the one who was cast in that particular movie but there are others like. As an ounce was also a director, he made the movie into such a great masterpiece that it also became the most successful box office release of that particular year and also the best release of his career. He was very inspired by the novels written by Bill and was inspired to make several other movies as well. Bill William Diehl wrote eight more novels in St. Simons, Georgia, where he shifted in 1980.

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His death

Bill William Diehl Died in a hospital in Atlanta named Emory University on November 24, 2006, because he was suffering from an aortic aneurysm. At that time, he was working on his 10th novel. He was not married once but twice and had four children from his first wife and one from his second wife. His children are believed to carry on his legacy by writing for the novels in books inspired by their father’s life.

Net worth

In the beginning, Bill William Diehl started doing photography and journalism, which was not a very successful career for him . he was least interested in that particular niche and therefore started writing novels later on in his life. His early choices of carrier did not lead him to make a lot of money, but the writing was the basic thing because of which he has managed to estimate net worth of about $2 million.