Duncan Ball is the best-selling author of seventy-five books of children’s fiction including the Selby and Emily Eyefinger series. He moved to Australia in 1974. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and lived for some years in Anchorage, Alaska, and later in Madrid and Paris. He majored in Mathematics
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