Bill Mesce Jr. is an American writer from New Jersey whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting and playwriting. He contributed additional writing to Brian De Palma's Blow Out and wrote the screenplay for Road Ends, starring Dennis Hopper and Mariel Hemingway. His books include the novel The Advocate and its sequels Officer of the Court and The Defender, Peckinpah's Women, a study of the westerns of Sam Peckinpah, and Artists on the Art of Survival.
