Gordon S. Dickson was born near Inverness, Scotland, but left from there at a young age when the family returned to Northern Ireland.
He was educated at secondary and grammar schools and scraped through English 'O' levels as essay writing was not a strong point.
He was employed in the civil service for several years but is now retired and has only recently taken up writing novels.
He enjoys reading several genres of books but mainly historical and detective stories, gardening, going to the cinema.