Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor was born in South Africa in 1948 and grew up near Johannesburg. At the age of twenty-two he made his home in Britain and travelled for four years in the Middle East and South Asia. From 1980-1987 he was foreign correspondent for The Times and the Observer based in Africa, South-East Asia and Australia. Both his previous books have had African subjects, including Shaka’s Children: a History of the Zulu People. He works for The Times and is married with two children.