Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley is a Canadian author of mystery novels. During his high school years, rather than socializing, Alan would spend his spare time reading at the cemetery. He worked as Director of Television Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan for 25 years before deciding to switch careers in favour of becoming a full-time writer. He first tried writing screenplays, but after the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire destroyed neighbouring houses, he decided to try his hand at writing memoirs. In 2007, he wrote 15 pages about the character who would become Flavia de Luce for a contest, which he won.