Simon Richard Green (born 25 August 1955) is an English science fiction and fantasy author. Green was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester. He began writing in 1973, sold his first story "Manslayer" in 1976, and published his first full-length work, Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds in 1979. In 1988 he sold seven novels, and in 1989, he received a commission to write the novelization of the Kevin …