A journalist, author, and broadcaster, Paul Clements has written five travel books and a biography of Richard Hayward, adapted for BBC television. He knew Jan Morris personally for thirty years, edited a collection of tributes to her, and spent four months at Oxford University where he wrote the first critical study of her work published by University of Wales Press. A former BBC assistant editor, he is a recipient of the Reuter Journalist's Fellowship Programme, a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives with his wife and son in Belfast.