As an aspiring eight-year-old author with a shortage of paper, CE Butler would tear out the blank pages in the backs of books to have something on which to hone his craft. That was the same year he decided to begin writing The Will Stover Sports Series. Thirty-seven years later, the series is complete. Butler left an award-winning career as a sports editor and columnist more than a decade ago. He now invests his free time watching his daughters dance and play tennis. He and his wife live and work in central Arkansas.