David Weeks

David Weeks was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. At the age of 18, he joined the U. S. Navy, serving on the USS Skywatcher and in the Submarine Service. After leaving the Navy, he went to Strathclyde University in Glasgow, then to the University of Edinburgh, receiving a B.A.(HONS), M.Phil. and Ph.D. He worked as a Clinical Psychologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Western General Hospital, and in a large general practice in Leith, and became the Head of Old Age Psychology and a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. With co-author Jamie James, he has published two books in Britain and throughout the British Commonwealth: Eccentrics (1995) and Superyoung(1998). He has been interviewed on BBC Radio on over a hundred occasions and has appeared as a guest on numerous television chat shows. He has also worked as a feature writer for The Sunday Times Magazine, The Daily Mail, The Scotsman and The Herald Saturday Magazine. In America, he has been featured in People Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. He was also the first invited speaker at a Carr-Gomm Society conference in London, speaking on loneliness, in the presence of the Duchess of York. He has recently been the Keynote Speaker at a British Psychological Society National Conference in Colchester, speaking about his research on eccentricity, people who look substantially younger than their chronological age and the beneficial effects of sex. The Very Eye of Night, a thriller/mystery is David's debut novel.