Garry kilworth biography

Garry Kilworth was born during the bombing of York in 1941. His father being regular RAF he was an itinerant service brat until he himself joined at the age of 15. Childhood years were spent on remote RAF stations, the most exciting of which was Aden, now South Yemen. There at the age of 14 Garry became lost with a friend in the Hadhramaut Desert. There also began a love of the exotic, which has been an integral part of his fiction. Apart from running around sandy wastelands brown-skinned, chasing scorpions and camel spiders, he started to read. There was no television in those years and he read voraciously, his favourite authors being Rudyard Kipling, Richmal Crompton and Robert Louis Stevenson. 'Classic Comics' gave him an appetite for the writers of yesteryear, especially those with a speculative flavour.

His 18 RAF years as a telegraphist and cryptographer took him to many countries, including back to Aden (two tours), the Maldives, Singapore, Cyprus, Malta and Kenya. To dat