Tony Parker

Born in Manchester in 1923, Tony Parker died in October 1996, just as his last book was going to press. A lifelong pacifist and conscientious objector in World War II, he worked underground in a coal mine for eighteen months before being injured in an accident. Influenced by his wife, who was a medical social worker, he later became a prison visitor and was eventually drawn into radio work, which was his first step toward becoming an interviewer and writer. His books on prisons and offenders, as well as on many other topics, have achieved both critical renown and popular success.