Bill W. A Strange Salvation: A Biographical Novel Based on Key Moments in the Life of Bill Wilson, the Alcoholics Anonymous Founder, and a Probing of His Mysterious 11-Year Depression

After Bill Wilson's supreme achievement in founding Alcoholics Anonymous, why would he have suffered a serious depression that lasted more than a decade? This book attempts to throw light on the question, one that has never been adequately answered and rarely asked. In doing so, it involves the reader in many other themes of vital relevance to everyone--not to those in recovery alone.

This in-depth psychological study of the AA founder is generally based on the facts of Wilson's life, but n...