Colin Walker
Colin Walker was born in Liverpool, but the family soon aferwards moved 'over the water' to Wallasey. After a false start as an apprentice fitter at Cammell Laird's shipyard, he completed National Service with the RAF in Cyprus and Egypt, then ran through a variety of jobs, including seaman, farmhand, cinema manager, breadroundsman, undertaker's driver, shop assistant, export salesman and language teacher. Meanwhile he wrote numerous articles and short stories as well as one full-length novel...See more
Colin Walker was born in Liverpool, but the family soon aferwards moved 'over the water' to Wallasey. After a false start as an apprentice fitter at Cammell Laird's shipyard, he completed National Service with the RAF in Cyprus and Egypt, then ran through a variety of jobs, including seaman, farmhand, cinema manager, breadroundsman, undertaker's driver, shop assistant, export salesman and language teacher. Meanwhile he wrote numerous articles and short stories as well as one full-length novel before finally getting into print with Incompatability, in which the central character of the Guilded Cage, Dorothy Blanchard, makes her first appearance. See less