William Boyle

William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the Southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His first novel, Gravesend, was published in 2013 and his newest, Saint of the Narrows Street, came out in 2025. His work is frequently described as character-driven, literary crime fiction and Brooklyn Noir. Boyle shares memories of growing up in Gravesend in the 1980s and '90s when the neighborhoods was predominately Italian.  As a boy, he loved listening to stories told by his Italian grandparents and their friends and would tape record and transcribe those conversations, which gave him an ear for dialogue. "I have and probably will continue to write about my block in various kind of ways," says Boyle, "I think a lot of times I'm writing about the same house, my grandparents' house, and I'm just dressing it up in different ways for different characters."

His website is williammichaelboyle.com.