Ronald Rees
The author of 15 previous books for both academic and commercial presses, Ronald Rees was born in Skewen and attended Neath Grammar School. He taught at Saskatchewan and Mount Allison universities before becoming a full-time writer, and his book 'King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584–1895' won the Glamorgan Historical Society's Millennium History Prize. He lives in the historic town of St Andrews in Canada.