Keating, H.R.F.

Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the Merchant Taylor’s school in London between 1940 and 1944 and served in the military until 1948 when he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1952. Keating then worked at various newspapers, mainly in London. He started to work for The Times in 1958 and began to write full time after he had published his second crime novel in 1960, although he continued as a book critic until the 1980s. In 1954, he married the actress Sheila Mitchell; they had three sons and a daughter.