John Reader

John Reader is a writer and photojournalist with more than forty years' professional experience, much of it in Africa. Born in London in 1937, he currently holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His work has included contributions to major international publications, consultancies for the United Nations Environment Programme, scripts for television documentaries and the books Pyramids of Life (with Harvey Croze, 1977), Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man (1981; Penguin, 1988), Kilimanjaro (1982), The Rise of Life (1986), Mount Kenya (1989) and Man on Earth (1988; Penguin, 1990). He now lives in south-west London.