John Thompson was born in the district of Eton in 1942. He attended the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1965 with an Honours Degree in History. He followed this by reading for an M.A. in American History in Virginia and happened to be in the United States when both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated! Eventually side-tracked into Law, John spent the next two decades as a practising barrister. He is a keen member of his local writing group, Llanelli Writers’ Circle.
