Bill J. Leonard is Chair of Church History in the Divinity School at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including A Dictionary of Baptists in America, Baptist Ways: A History, and Baptists in America.

Bill J. Leonard is Chair of Church History in the Divinity School at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including A Dictionary of Baptists in America, Baptist Ways: A History, and Baptists in America.