David Canter is Professor of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published over 20 single authored and edited books, and founded two academic journals. He is winner of The Golden Dagger Award and US Anthony Award for crime non-fiction for his book
Criminal Shadows. Gavin Fairbairn is Professor of Ethics and Language at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is co-author of Reading, Writing and Reasoning and Reading at University, both from Open University Press. Becoming an Author is his tenth book.