John von Kesmark

John von Kesmark is best known as the author of the Rathing Chronicles, a series of science fiction books beginning with The Kytos Project, published in 2006 and continued in 2008 with Kytos - The Dark Beyond.

He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where his family were in the diplomatic corps. He worked in shipping, the travel industry, advertising, and the wine trade. In the 1960s he set up a management and marketing consultancy. He lived in West Africa for a few years and has travelled throughout Europe, the U.S., Middle East, Africa and the Far East. He now lives by the River Thames at Old Isleworth near Richmond, Surrey with his wife, Diane.