Commentary

Guilt Edge

by J.R. Carroll •

October 1994, no. 165

Commentary

Guilt Edge

by J.R. Carroll •

October 1994, no. 165

For Englishman Michael Dibdin, the road to success in crime fiction has been long, frustrating, and somewhat circuitous. After studying English at Sussex University, he went to Canada to do his PhD, dropped out, hit the hippie trail in the 1970s, then founded a business that went bust. In amongst that, his marriage went down the gurgler too. In short he had seen and experienced a great deal without making a fist of anything.

J.R. Carroll

J.R. Carroll was born and raised in Melbourne. A graduate of Melbourne University, he worked as a teacher for a number of years before turning to full-time fiction writing in the mid-eighties. His first book, about the Vietnam War was Token Soldiers, which appeared in 1983.