Bernard Hare

Bernhard Hare was born in 1958 into a Leeds mining family. Educated at grammar school and at Hatfield Polytechnic, he was a social worker in London until the miner’s strike of 1984. He subsequently worked in Leeds as a mechanic, community worker and removal man. He now writes, plays chess, and works in community arts.

His first book URBAN GRIMSHAW AND THE SHED CREW was published in 2005 and received much media attention and wonderful reviews.