Grant Walker was born in Christchurch in 1960 and went to school locally. He has been a radio and television broadcaster for more than 30 years. It wasn’t until he reached his mid-forties that he started writing fiction and his first picture book, Captain Cough-a-Lot, was published in 2008.
 

Selected bibliography:

• Captain Cough-a-Lot illustrated by Geoff Tobin (Scholastic 2008).