Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, John Wilson grew up on the Isle of Skye and outside Glasgow without the slightest idea that he would ever write books. After a degree in Geology from St. Andrews University, he worked in Zimbabwe and Alberta before taking up writing full-time and moving out to Vancouver Island in 1991.
John has used a long-standing fascination with history to craft seventeen novels and six non-fiction books for kids, teens and adults. John firmly believes that the past must have been just as exciting, confusing and complex to those who lived through it as our world is to us. His tales involve dinosaurs, lost Arctic explorers, socialist coal miners and boys caught up in the First and Second World Wars.