About Me — Stuart Aken

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My Bio:

So, who am I? The name’s Stuart Aken. It’s a pen name I use instead of my given name because Googling that listed thousands of websites, most by other writers. You’ll find mine here. I decided to use a pseudonym, and to honour my biological father, who died 3 weeks before my birth. He was ‘Ken’ to everyone. I wanted to keep my own first name and surname initial, so came up with the name I now use. Googling it generally brings up items relating to me.

I’m 73, raised in Yorkshire, the largest county in England, but I see myself first as a citizen of the world, then European, English, and then as a Yorkshireman. Married to the love of my life with whom I have a beautiful, bright, daughter who lives in Australia and recently married her long-term boyfriend. I have an elder sister, an older stepbrother (deceased), a ‘twin’ stepbrother (deceased), and a half-brother, still very much alive despite his lifetime with type 1 diabetes.

Born in Hull, East Yorkshire, I now live in the Forest of Dean, a beautiful area close to the border with Wales in Southwest England. We take daily walks in the trees surrounding our home.

Background and Experience

The house where I was born was torn down a few years later as it was in a slum district. The midwife attending my mother left her to it…