He was born in London, England and later raised in the U.S. where he attended the University of Maryland majoring in English and journalism. He spent three years as a U.S. Army correspondent during the Viet Nam War and afterward worked for U.S. News and World Report in Washington, D.C. In the mid-70s he emigrated to Canada where he worked for Southam Business Publications. Since the early 1990s he has worked as a freelance journalist, graphic designer and novelist. His mystery novel, Boreal Dreams, was short listed for the Robertson Davies Prize and he is currently working on his second novel, The Art & Happenstance of Foraging, which he hopes to complete later the Spring.