British writer of SpeculativeFiction, SF, FantasyFiction, and mysteries. He was born and spent his childhood in Zambia, went to Cambridge and worked at _Punch_ for many years until writing his first novel. Has an excellent sense of humor about himself. His online bio begins: "PeterDickinson ...is a tall, elderly, bony, beaky, wrinkled sort of fellow, with a lot of untidy grey hair and a weird hooting voice – in fact he looks and sounds a bit like Gandalf’s crazy twin, but he’s only rather absent-minded, probably because he’s thinking about something else. Day-dreaming, mostly." Married to the American writer RobinMcKinley; they live in the South of England. - isfdb:author/Peter_Dickinson - http://www.peterdickinson.com (author's site) CategoryAuthor