William Luce was born on 16 October 1931 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was a writer, known for Barrymore (2011), The Prophet and Brontë (1983). He died on 9 December 2019 in Green Valley, Arizona, USA.
He was a child prodigy on piano. He attended a conservatory and studied at two other colleges without graduating. He accompanied his mother on her Christian Science healing visits, and was a church organist in Oregon and Southern California, where he settled before eventually leaving the faith.
