Chet Williamson is the author of nearly 20 books[1] and over 100 short stories published in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy, and many other magazines and anthologies.
His father worked at Olmstead Air Force Base and New Cumberland Army Depot, and his mother, whose lineage is Pennsylvania Dutch, was a homemaker.
[citation needed] From 2001 to 2007, Williamson was the lead singer and guitarist for the Irish duo Fire in the Glen, in which he was partnered with fiddler and bodhranist Tom Knapp.
[citation needed] A lifelong member of the Actors' Equity Association, Williamson eventually resumed his acting career, and has performed in plays and musicals at Lancaster's Fulton Opera House and Theater of the Seventh Sister.
[1] Williamson portrayed college professor Frederick Miller in the 2006 Fulton Opera House staged reading of "Any Day Now" by David Rush, and Jane Holahan of the Lancaster New Era commented: "These actors were terrific.
"[9] Williamson played a Baltimore Herald reporter as part of the Theater of the Seventh Sister in its 2007 production of "Inherit the Wind," at Millersville University's Rafters Theatre.
[1] Susan E. Lindt of the Intelligencer Journal Lancaster also praised his performance: "The biggest standout is Elizabethtown actor Chet Williamson as acidic critic E.K.
He has also recorded unabridged audiobooks of several of his novels, as well as works by Michael Moorcock, Tom Piccirilli, and Zoe Winters for Crossroad Press/Springbook Audio.