Richard Morris is emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Huddersfield. He began his career working on excavations under York Minster in 1971.

Since then he has worked as a university teacher, as director of the Council for British Archaeology, as director of the Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies, and as a writer and composer.

His book Churches in the Landscape (1989) is widely regarded as a pioneering classic. Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and shortlisted for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award.

He is completing a new biography of the aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis, and working on a social history of interwar England from the air.

Jay Fleck is the illustrator of numerous books for children, including Everything You by Elizabeth McPike and Flo by Kyo Maclear.

He lives in Shorewood, Illinois, with his family.