Irwin Allan Sealy was born in Allahabad in 1951 and educated in Lucknow and Delhi. He is the author of The Trotter-Nama, The Everest Hotel, The Brainfever Bird and other novels, a travelogue, From Yukon to Yucatan, and a memoir, The Small Wild Goose Pagoda. He lives in Dehradun, where he is apprenticed to a bricklayer.