Timothy McDougall

Timothy McDougall was born in Illinois and grew up on both the South and North sides of Chicago. He fell in love with story-telling as a child, exhibiting and narrating silent shorts of well-known horror movies for neighborhood friends. He read the great authors devouring the works of Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, among many others, with T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom having particular impact due to its evocative and brilliant prose. Timothy's love for all things literary continued as he studied acting and filmmaking in Los Angeles after attending the University of Miami in Florida. He won awards for his screenplays, and has written and directed an independent motion picture. Timothy currently lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children. Violence is his first novel.