The author was educated at a school in southern England. Following graduation from Trinity College, Cambridge, he made a working visit to Dallas, Texas, where, as a teacher, he obtained much of the background for his first novel, A Premature Affair, a personalised study of the events and repercussions surrounding the Kennedy assassination. He has worked in London as a freelance journalist, teacher and writer, and travelled and taught widely in Germany, the United States and Canada; it was during these assignments that he obtained experience of schools' theatre productions, particularly Shakespeare, and the difficulties and exhilaration inherent in them. He currently lives in Somerset, where he is working on the third part of his Kennedy trilogy.