Gerald Hammond

Gerald Hammond was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England, to Frederick Arthur Lucas, a physician, and Maria Birnie, a nursing sister. He and his wife, Gilda Isobel Watt, have three sons: Peter, David, and Steven. Hammond graduated from the Aberdeen School of Architecture in 1952 and served in the British Army from 1944–1945. He was an architect for thirty years before retiring to Scotland to write full-time in 1982. Hammond has written more than fifty novels since the late 1960s, sometimes writing under the pseudonyms Arthur Douglas and Dalby Holden.