The son of a potato farmer, Bill Lynch served as chief of staff for New York Mayor David Dinkins. Bill ran his first political campaign for a high school classmate on Long Island when the two of them were high school students in Suffolk County; he attended Virginia Union, a historically black college near Richmond Virginia, where his life as an activist, organizer, and political strategist began in the 1960s. After I completed an interview with him for a book, I asked him if I could do more interviews with him with the goal of writing a biography. I knew he was ill and asked if we could do this as soon as possible after I finished the current book project. I hope someone looking for a book topic reads this and runs with the idea writing his biography.
