Ian Campbell

Ian Wallace Campbell (1947 - ) was born in Forest Gate, London, to an English mother and Scots father. At the age of seven, he was taken to live on the south coast of England by his mother where he spent his formative years. After starting his working life as a photographer, he did a succession of menial jobs ranging from being a cab driver to running a bureau de change. He was persuaded in the mid 1980's to go back to photography as a freelance for the national press and had a successful career in journalism. He started to write at this time. His first book, "That Will Do Nicely" uses his experience in the photographic and foreign exchange businesses to give rich detail to the plot of an ingenious fraud caper. The sequel "Pentagon Five" followed two years later. In the late 1980's, Campbell became interested in the subject of Rennes-le-Chateau and co-authored "Geneset - Target Earth" with David Wood in 1994. This was followed by "Poussin's Secret" a year later. In 1997 he went back to college and the following year entered Kent University to read Astrophysics. He graduated in 2000 and attended Christchurch University College the next year where he completed a teaching degree in mathematics. He now lives on the south Kent coast and divides his time between teaching and writing.