Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1946. He has been an entertainment officer on a Japanese supertanker, a waiter on roller skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He lives in Islington, North London, and works in jobs that (with mild paranoia) he declines to specify. Pseudonym of Julian Barnes.