Maine-born Hayford Peirce (USA, b. 1942) while living in Tahiti, began writing in 1974, first science fiction stories, then mysteries. In 1987 he moved to San Francisco and began writing full time, turning out three SF novels for Tor. When last sighted, he was writing short fiction again, and living in Tucson, Arizona.

-biographical data from fantasticfiction.co.uk