William Randall er er professor i gerontologi ved St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada.
Han er også redaktør for tidsskriftet Narrative Works og er sentral i Centre for Interdiciplinary Research on Narrative (CIRN).
Randall var en av initiativtakerne til Narrative Matters-konferansene.
Randall har publisert bredt innenfor det narrative forskningsfeltet. Hans mest kjente bøker er:
- The Stories We Are: An essay on self-creation (University of Toronto Press, 1995, 2014)
- Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- Storying Later Life: Issues, Investigations, and Interventions in Narrative Gerontology (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Hans nyeste bøker er:
- The narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life: Tales from the Coffee Shop (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- The Tales that Bind: A Narrative Model for Living and Helping in Rural Communities (University of Toronto Press, 2015)