Garry Douglas Kilworth

Garry Douglas Kilworth is a British author of young adult, science fiction, and historical fiction novels. He was born in York, England during World War II in 1941. He spent much of his childhood traveling across the globe with his brothers, mother, and father who was a soldier in the Royal Airforce. His favorite years were when the family lived in Yemen as he got to live like Kipling’s Kim and read a lot of classics from Rudyard Kipling and William Shakespeare. By the time he was fifteen, he had attended twenty-two different schools before he joined the Boy Entrants training school. It was a school that prepared youths that wanted a career in the RAF, which is a career he had always wanted to pursue. Once he graduated, he got into the RAF, where he spent nearly two decades and then went on to work in Cable and Wireless for nearly a decade. During that time, he was writing stories though he never got published. His big break came when he submitted a short story named “Let’s Go to Golgotha” that won the Sunday Times/Gollancz short story competition. Kilworth would later go back to school at King’s College, London University from where he graduated with an honors degree in English.