Richard Farr
Richard Farr is the author of Emperors of the Ice, The Babel Trilogy, and other books. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell; before becoming a full-time author he taught on the philosophy faculty at Colgate and the University of Hawaii, ran his own communications and training company, and worked as a journalist. He has written for newspapers in the UK and U.S., reviewing popular science, biography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, travel, and both adult and children's fiction.
He grew up in the rural southwest of England, and now lives in Seattle.