Bill Lacy was born in New York City in 1950 and grew up in West Hartford, Staten Island and Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the Loomis-Chaffee School in 1968 and spent his college years at Yale University, graduating in 1972 with a B.A. in history. During his high school and college summers, Bill worked as a day laborer at an Anaconda Copper factory, a runner on the American Stock Exchange and a moving man and truck driver for the Nationwide Moving Company, jobs that became the source of many (true) stories that his children find hard to believe. Following college, Bill sold computers for Burroughs Corporation and studied Arabic at Yale. A chance invitation to visit Chicago then led Bill to a 29-year residence in that city and its suburbs, where he met his wife, Ally, raised a family and worked in commercial and investment banking. In 2004, Bill and Ally moved their family to Darien, where he began a 13-year commute to New York, working in the fixed income group of J.P. Morgan’s Asset Management department. He retired in 2017. Bill has traveled extensively for work and for pleasure in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. His interests include 19th century French literature, which he stumbles through almost every day with his schoolboy French, music of all sorts and travel with his wife and 3 children.
