Anton Gill

Who is Anton Gill?

Anton Gill has been a full-time professional writer since 1984, and since then he has published over 35 books.

Gill was born in Ilford, Essex, the son of a German father and an English mother, and grew up in London. He was educated at Chigwell School and Clare College, Cambridge, and worked as an actor and as a director in the theatre, for the Arts Council, and for the BBC and TV-am before turning to full-time writing. He has written on a variety of ancient and contemporary historical subjects, including three biographies. His work includes both fiction and non-fiction, where his special field is contemporary European history, including The Journey Back from Hell, An Honourable Defeat, and Berlin to Bucharest. In fiction, he has written a series of Egyptian Mysteries, featuring the world's first private eye, the scribe, Huy, which have been published worldwide. More recently, he published The Sacred Scroll, a history-mystery, with Penguin. He is also the author of two biographies, on William Dampier, and Peggy Guggenheim. His most recent titles are the novels: City of Gold and The Accursed.