Jonathan Gash

JONATHAN GASH is the pen name of John Grant who also wrote under the name of Graham Gaunt. Born in 1933 in Bolton Lancashire Grant trained as a doctor and worked as both a GP and a pathologist. He also served in the Royal Army Medical Corps where he rose to the rank of Major and was head of bacteriology at the University of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His first Lovejoy novel The Judas Pair won the Crime Writers' Association prestigious John Creasey award in 1977. Grant lives in Colchester Essex.