Dr Neil Johnson is the author of a considerable number of scientific articles and journals which few people have ever read and no one remembers, around a dozen equally influential books on biomedical topics, and a series of books for children, The King and Wizard Stories.

One-time Reader in Neuropharmacology at the University of Lancaster, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Institute of Biology, the British Psychological Society and the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum, which means that he can not only read big words, but has figured out how to look as though he understands most of them.

He lives with his wife Susan in Carnforth, Lancashire.