William Ade was born and raised in a large family in small town Indiana during the fifties and sixties; an experience that strongly influences his writing. While attending graduate school at the University of Illinois, he met and married his wife, Cindy and following graduation, they headed to the East Coast. After settling in Northern Virginia, they raised two children into adulthood. Those years of love and life also influences many of his stories. Ade's latest novel, written as Nic Knuckles, is Big Scream in a Wee Village and is the second in the Nic Knuckles Collection published by Level Best Books (LBB). LBB also published Big Scream in a Small Town (2023), and, Do It for Daisy in 2021. Other novels by the author includes, The Man Who Fixed Things (2023), Art of Absolution (2019), and the serialized The Inevitable Failure of Jonathan Golding (2022). His short story collection, No Time for His Nonsense was released in 2019. His short story, Punch Drunk, was part of the 2024 Chesapeake Crimes: Three Strikes - You're Dead anthology, and his story, Maggie and Rick will appear in the Malice Domestic Presents: Murder Most Humorous anthology in April 2025. Other short stories have appeared in Mysteries Unimagined, the Rind Literary Magazine, The Broken Plate, Black Fox Literary, Mindscapes Unimagined, and the 2018 and 2019 Best New England Crime Stories.