IAN THORNTON has lived in California, Costa Rica, Australia, Mexico, London, and his native Yorkshire before moving to Toronto in 2009. Ian earned a First Class BA (Hons) at Sheffield University, and worked for Broadcast, TV World, and Variety magazines. He is a co-founder of the global television industry publisher, C21 Media. He covered the Royal wedding in London for CTV, and has recently written for Wisden Cricketer, the Guardian, the Hindu, and the Soho House magazine, House. He also wrote on the football World Cup in South Africa for the Score, and has worked for Queen’s University in Ontario, where his project was presented at the White House as part of President Obama’s new media initiative. Ian is the official biographer of the Compton cricket club in California. His novels have been published by Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Unbound and translated across Europe. He produced the CSA-nominated The Face of Anonymous for TVO. Ian resides in Toronto with his wife Heather Gordon and their children, Laszlo and Clementine.
