Jere­my Dron­field is a biog­ra­ph­er, his­to­ri­an, nov­el­ist and for­mer archae­ol­o­gist. He is the author of the forth­com­ing mid­dle-grade nar­ra­tive non­fic­tion book The Boy Who Fol­lowed His Father into Auschwitz: A Sto­ry Retold, and his recent adult non­fic­tion titles include Dr. James Bar­ry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time, a Sun­day Times Book of the Year. He lives in England.