Paul Watkins was born in 1964. He wrote his first novel, Night Over Day Over Night, at the age of 16. Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn was his second novel, and won the Encore Award in 1989. He has written many other novels including The Forger, The Story of My Disappearance and In The Blue Light of African Dreams, along with a memoir of his experiences at public school, Stand Before Your God. He lives in New Jersey.
