They became friends in the summer of 1980, and kept in touch until, some twenty-three years later, they finally began to cooperate on their writing.Īfter an unsuccessful attempt to transfer to medical school to train as a doctor, Roderick had graduated from University College London in 1983 without any idea of what career he wanted to follow. It was here that he met his future collaborator on the Tunnels series of books, Brian Williams, who was at the Slade School of Fine Art.
He went on to public school at Oundle, and then attended University College, London, where he read biology (specialising in genetics ).
Chronically shy throughout his childhood, he sought refuge in drawing and writing, and whilst at the Hall School, Hampstead, he had his first short story published in the school magazine, at the age of twelve. Roderick Gordon (born November 1960) is the author of Tunnels, a bestselling children's book and the first book in the Tunnels series by himself and Brian Williams.īorn in November 1960, Roderick grew up in Highgate, North London.
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