William Green Hope was a member of a prominent Chattanooga family. He was born on Lookout Mountain in 1916 and graduated from the University of Chattanooga in 1936. He studied foreign languages at UC and continued these studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1936-1937. After that he returned to Chattanooga and was an instructor briefly at UC, and then Middle Georgia College (1939-1940). His fluency in French led to his serving as an interpreter for the American forces in France during World War II. After the war he taught in the extension colleges of the University of California, Vanderbilt University, and other schools in Aix-En-Provence, in France, where he spent the remainder of his life. During his life he composed two plays, in French, and these were performed in Paris. He died in France in 1993. He left no survivors.