Jason R Briggs grew up in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of New Zealand, but for the last 20+ years has divided his time between NZ, Thailand and England.

He has written software professionally as a developer and technical architect and served as a contributing editor for Java Developer's Journal. His articles have appeared in JavaWorld, PNJava and ONLamp.

He currently lives in England, in a small village just outside of London, where he spends much of his time grumbling about the weather... the people on the Underground... the distinct lack of anything resembling a proper antipodean lager.

'Python for kids' is his first book.