John Lawton is an author of crime/espionage stories primarily set in England during World War II and the Cold War. He was born in Washington in 1947, but has lived in England and Italy. He leads a fairly reclusive life, rarely giving interviews, and describes in the biography parts of his books, many tongue in cheek hobbies such as the cultivation of the onion. His name is believed to be a pseudonym, and pictures are said to be of his younger brother William.
