Ray Sproule has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has been writing fiction from the age of seventeen. His influences range from, Ken Follet, Clive Cussler and Martin Cruz Smith to Nabokov and Dostoevsky. His first book, the Paranoian, was published in 2022, his second book, Femme Devereux, in 2023, and his third, The Crucifix, in 2024.
He was born in Montreal and raised two sons as a single parent. He lives on Vancouver Island, B.C. and enjoys traveling, hiking, chess and karate.