Hunter John Winton Burke was born in Armidale, N.S.W. Australia in 1945. At the age of fifteen he left home and travelled to Sydney where he rented a flat in the infamous King’s Cross and worked in...view moreHunter John Winton Burke was born in Armidale, N.S.W. Australia in 1945. At the age of fifteen he left home and travelled to Sydney where he rented a flat in the infamous King’s Cross and worked in a succession of dissatisfying dead-end jobs. He moved to Auckland, New Zealand, when he was 24, having just married. Now, divorced and retired he continues to write short stories and is currently working on a book about the Witch of Kings Cross, Rosaleen Norton. The Executioner’s Daughter is his first novel.
He continues to live in Auckland.view less