David McCaughey, pen name Gabriel Deeds, was born in Tanzania, June 4, 1960 at the Williamson diamond mine, the only hospital around. Both his Mother and his Father are Irish, his Mother from Wexford and his Father from Antrim. He has travelled the world extensively and now lives part of the year in the English Lake District and part of the year in Vancouver, Canada.
He resigned from a career in local government to take up writing full time. Eden's Legacy is his first book. He is now working on a thriller, The Minstrel Boy, and a series of children's stories, Piccolo the Panther.