Autor/-in: Christopher Vanier

Christopher Vanier, the author of this book, was born in 1942 on the tropical island of St Kitts in the British West Indies. After winning a Caribbean-wide essay competition on Abraham Lincoln in 1958, he earned an M. A. at Cambridge University in the UK and a Ph. D. at Syracuse University in the USA, both in Chemical Engineering. He then worked as an engineer and IT specialist in France with his French wife. On retirement in 2001, he began writing memoirs. Caribbean Chemistry was published in 2009, and On the Run in Fontainebleau in 2019. His latest work Hazel Climbs Mountains concerns his handicapped sister, Hazel, whom he has followed all her life.