Cirrus@Austlit

A Sydney-based writer, Alan Mills migrated to Australia at the age of twenty-three. Mills has worked in a wide array of occupations which have included 'a research assistant in criminal psychology in a British maximum security prison, a sideshow barker in a travelling carnival, a scriptwriter for a TV cop series, a high school teacher, a bookshop manager, an English instructor at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, an odd-job man in a lion safari park, a forestry worker, a time keeper on a railroad construction project in north-west Australia, and a copywriter and creative director in advertising agencies'. (Source: HarperCollins)