Charles Davis was born and educated, and has travelled and worked. He now lives and writes. That has always seemed to me to be enough biography for any writer, but being an avid reader, too, I appreciate that curiosity demands a bit more, so . . .
Herman Melville, Mark Twain, R.C. Hutchinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Barry Unsworth . . . to be honest, I've stolen ideas from every book I've ever read.