Lorn Macintyre was born in Argyll in 1942. He has researched and scripted television documentaries for BBC Scotland. He is the author of the Chronicles of Invernevis series of novels, and two short story collections, Tobermory Days and Tobermory Tales, based on his adolescent years on Mull. His poetry collection A Snowball in Summer (Argyll Publishing) was published in 2009.