Dan Kavanagh was born in County Sligo in 1946. Having devoted his adolescence to truancy, venery and petty theft, he left home at seventeen and signed on as a deckhand on a Liberian tanker. After jumping ship at Montevideo, he roamed across the Americas taking a variety of jobs: he was a steer-wrestler, a waiter-on-roller-skates at a drive-in eatery in Tucson, and a bouncer in a gay bar in San Francisco. He is currently working in London at jobs he declines to specify, and lives in North Islington.

Alleged Photographs of Dan Kavanagh, London c1986

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Dan Kavanagh returns to hardback!

Orion Publishing published Dan Kavanagh's four novels as hardbacks in 2014 and 2015. Paperbacks of each title are also available.