Robert Haig was born in 1959. Educated at Winchester College and St Andrews University, he graduated with an MA in modern and medieval history in 1982. He is the author of A History of Theatres and Performers in Herefordshire (published 2002), and in 2009 was commissioned to write a series of short histories of Cambridge colleges for Cambridge 800, a book published to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of Cambridge University. He lives in Herefordshire, where in roughly equal measures he combines writing with growing cider apples.
