ROBERT WILLIAM HARVEY
Writing as Robert William Saul Harvey:
Adult and YA Fiction.
Robert
was born in 1949 in the small Scottish hamlet of Douglas West, Douglas in Lanarkshire,
but moved to England when his father, a miner, had to move south for a job.
Having
left school at the age of fifteen, without any qualifications whatsoever, he
started work in a small engineering firm. He soon got fed up coming home
covered in dirty grease and having a spotty face so, after six months, decided
that engineering was not for him. With nothing to lose, he ran away to sea, so
to speak. He joined the Merchant Navy and happily spent three and a half years
travelling the world and getting paid for it!
Meeting
his future wife at the age of nineteen convinced Robert to leave the sea and
settle down. There were not many jobs around for a nineteen-year-old and he
ended up doing bar/cellar work until deciding to get married at the age of
twenty. That was when he joined the Royal Air Force, in which he spent nine
years as a Clerk Secretarial, attaining the rank of Corporal before leaving in
1979.
After
applying for various jobs, Robert finally got one with the National Coal Board
in a colliery Stores Department. Ok, this would do him for a while, whilst he
looked around for something better. Thirty years later, as a Supply and
Contracts Manager, he retired from the Coal Industry at the age of fifty-nine and
now has an allotment where he plays at growing vegetables (very nice they are
too), and spends his spare time dabbling on his laptop; bliss.
