Roderick gordon biography sample

British author

Roderick Gordon (born November 1960) is a British author, best known for Tunnels, a bestselling children's book and the first book in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams.

Biography

Born in November 1960, Roderick grew up in Highgate, North London. Chronically shy throughout his childhood, he sought refuge in drawing and writing, and whilst at the Hall School, Hampstead, he had his first short story published in the school magazine, at the age of twelve.

He went on to public school at Oundle, and then attended University College, London, where he read biology (specializing in genetics). It was here that he met his future collaborator on the Tunnels series of books, Brian Williams, who was at the Slade School of Fine Art.

They became friends in the summer of 1980, and kept in touch until, some twenty-three years later, they finally began to cooperate on their writing.^[1]

After an unsuccessful attempt to tr