About William L. Randall William Lowell Randall is a professor in the Department of Gerontology at St Thomas University. Books by William L. Randall Things That Matter Special Objects in Our Stories as We Age edited by William L. Randall & Matte Robinson The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life Tales from the Coffee Shop by (author) William L. Randall Storying Later Life Issues, Investigations, and Interventions in Narrative Gerontology edited by Gary Kenyon, Ernst Bohlmeijer & William L. Randall Reading Our Lives The Poetics of Growing Old by (author) William L. Randall & Elizabeth McKim