Graeme Connell

Graeme Connell was born in New Zealand dropped out of high school and swapped his newspaper delivery life for a writing career as a journalist. After 10 years in daily newspapers he signed on for a six month assignment as a journalist and photographer in Antarctica. He celebrated that adventure with two years in the Fiji Islands as assistant editor of the Fiji Times, then emigrated to Canada with his wife and three daughters. He ended his newspaper career as publisher of (then) Canada's northernmost daily newspaper and joined Mobil Oil as head of public relations back in New Zealand transferring later to Canada and an international assignment in the US corporate offices. He was closely associated with a plant to convert natural gas into gasoline in New Zealand, the construction of the Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland and the development of the Sable gas field off Nova Scotia. After all that finished he purchased a commercial print shop which he sold after 10 years and retired to write books. He lives with his wife Lois, an accomplished artist, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.