WILLIAM HIGHAM was born in England but grew up in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. A Rhodes Trustee Prizewinner in English Composition he studied photography and advertising before turning to journalism, during which time he won his spurs covering the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia bush war of the 1970s. His work there sold in 15 countries and was published twice in the International Year Book. In 2009, two of his African-themed novels, Nakada's Touch and The Hammarskjold Killing, were collected in NELM (the National English Literary Museum), an affiliate of South Africa's prestigious Rhodes University and Higham was designated a 'Southern African author'.