A lifelong Evertonian, James Corbett was born in Liverpool in 1978. He founded and edited the popular Gwladys Sings The Blues fanzine between 1994-97, before leaving to study at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck College. He is the author of Everton: The School of Science. He writes for the influential Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram Weekly, is married, and lives in London.