John Gwynne
1968
Born in Singapore, John Gwynne is an England based author who was used to traveling a lot as a child. This was due to his father’s position in the RAF. Now, however, his life has established a certain level of stability for him as he is happily married and settled in East Sussex with his wife, four children, and three dogs. In all these years he has held a wide variety of exciting and unbelievable jobs. These range from packing soap at a factory to being a lecturer at Brighton University. Somewhere in the middle of that, he even managed to waiter at a restaurant in Canada.Eventually, however, due to his daughter’s disability, things had to change. He ended up quitting his job at the University in order to take care of her, which meant staying at home a lot. This resulted in him and his wife working with rejuvenating vintage furniture when they weren’t taking care of their daughter. It involved plenty of manual labor on Gwynne’s part, and helped sustain the family for the time being. However, while this was his wife, Caroline’s passion, it clearly was not his own. Yet, he went along with it for a while. But at the end of the day he enjoyed the geekier side of life. As a result, he turned to his favorite authors for inspiration. J. R. R. Tolkien, Bernard Cornwell, and G. R. R. Martin came to his rescue in the form of ideas and imagination. He penned down the stories that took form in his mind, yet never considered the possibility of becoming a published author. Eventually, however, things changed, and today he has established his place among many of the popular authors from across the world. The influence of his favorite writers is evident in the plot structure and story line of his first series, ‘The Faithful and the Fallen’.Thus, an average dad with a knack for bedtime stories, Gwynne tapped into his imagination to make a hugely successful debut in 2012.