Dennis Burnier Smith

Dennis Burnier-Smith was born in Manchester England in 1946. Spending most of his working life as a long distance, truck driver, he started writing when an industrial accident curtailed his driving career. His first outing as an author, written under the pseudonym of Laurie Driver, was the semi-autobiographical "This Truckin' Life," which gained a cult following. On the strength of this he wrote two sequels:- "The Railway Years" and "The Early Years", thus turning the adventures of Laurie Driver into a trilogy. Then followed a biography of Thomas John Barnardo , the Victorian philanthropist and carer of orphans and waifs and strays. He wrote this as a dedication to his father who was a Barnardo's boy in the late 1920's. There then followed two crime thrillers:- "Evil is, as Evil Does," and "No Account," both featuring the detective Jake Shreiver and his partner Bill Williams. Another biography followed, "The Life & Times of Tomaso Bindotti, An Italian Foundling." A true story of an Italian Immigrant who suffered terribly in his own country and so made his way to England where he lived in the slums of Angel Meadow in Manchester, where he led a somewhat traumatic life.

Dennis still lives in Manchester with his wife of fifty years. He has two daughters, both who have left home to build their own families.