About
Bill Lynch, is an award-winning journalist, author, and columnist. He is the former editor Sonoma Magazine and The Sonoma Index-Tribune, and a recipient of the James Madison Investigative Journalism Award from Society of Professional Journalists and the Lincoln Steffens Investigative Journalism Award from Sonoma County Press Club.
His columns are currently published in The Sonoma Index-Tribune and on Sonomanews.com. The subjects range from fly-fishing and travel, to prominent local people and history. In addition to his regularly published columns, Lynch has also completed his first novel, MEKONG BELLE.
In 2015, Lynch co-authored the second edition of “The Sonoma Valley Story,” a detailed history of the birthplace of California wine.
In 2017, he published “My Sonoma – Valley of the Moon,” an insiders look at his hometown and the people who made it a very special place.
A graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Lynch served in Vietnam as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He and his wife, Dottie, live in Sonoma, CA.
Featured Work
Mekong Belle Love's Impossible Choice
Ensign Rob Allen arrives in Vietnam on a Navy ship that will become the Mekong Belle a modern version of a 19th-century Mississippi showboat. Its mission is to make music, not war.
Melanie Marquis, born in Vietnam, orphaned as a child, then educated in France longs to become a journalist, telling the story of Vietnams struggle for independence from the inside.
Rob and Melanie meet in a small bookstore in the South
Vietnam port city of Vung Tau. He is instantly captivated by her eyes
and the lilt in her voice. She is intrigued by his innocence and honest
interest in understanding her country.
They meet a second time and their fate as lovers caught between a
choice of love and duty is cast.
Other Works
-
My Sonoma – Valley of the Moon
2017
Awards and Recognition
- City of Sonoma Honorary Alcalde 2023
