Fantasy author Dave Duncan was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1933. His father was Norman Duncan, a Dundee businessman, who married Winnifred Anderson.

She taught household management until she married and became the mother of two sons. Dave was the elder son. He studied geology at the University of St. Andrews.

He moved to Canada in 1955, and lived in Calgary, Alberta, working for the next thirty years as a geologist and businessman.

Duncan and his wife, Janet, have been married since 1959, and have one son, two daughters and four grandchildren. They live in Calgary and Victoria, British Columbia. Duncan regards his wife as his in-house editor and critic. Without her input, he believes that his stories would still be moldering in slush piles. "She really ought to be listed as co-author," Duncan says in an autobiographical essay posted on his Web site. "Although she is...