occupation article_title name nationality
children 's book author stephen m. giles
 stephen m. giles australian
stephen m. giles

stephen m. giles is a children 's book author , best known for the gothic series , `` silas and the winterbottoms '' .
as of 2010 , he is 38 and lives in sydney .
he formerly worked as a film classifier and a market researcher .
giles ' biography states that he lives in a shambolic apartment not far from the beach and spends most days wandering around his imagination -- which is where he met the winterbottoms .
