Fox has contributed to publications such as Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Atlantic Monthly.
In 2008, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland and then Washington, D.C. Fox dropped out of high school to join the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
[2] Fox taught writing at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop and was the Writer-In-Residence at the University of South Carolina until 2007.
Bruce Springsteen, Musician "The picaresque slapstick of Pitching Tents reminds me of early William Price Fox, where the novelist doesn't seem to be so much writing and plotting as mixing up his own special brew."
James Wolcott, Vanity Fair "If stores had the good taste and decency to separate books by sensibility, [Brett] Butler would fit right next to writers like Lee Smith and William Price Fox, Southerners whose emotions go a mile deep and who remain tough and funny in very dark circumstances."
Charles Taylor, Salon Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (--on Fox's Southern Fried ): Thank God—at last, a humorist who can make us laugh!
Bill Fox stands a good chance of capturing the laugh Americans used to give to Mark Twain in simpler times.