Leighton Gage has lived in Australia, Europe, and South America, traveled widely in Asia and Africa. He’s been a copywriter, an advertising creative director, a magazine editor, and a writer/producer/director of documentary films and industrial videos.

He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke.

Fluent in three languages, and with a good working knowledge of three more, he’s previously published a non-fiction work on television commercial production, ( O Filme Publicitário ), a book which became the standard for teaching film and video production to a generation of Brazilians and Portuguese.

During his advertising career, he won over 130 awards for creative excellence and was a jury member in all of the world’s major advertising film festivals, including the Lions Festival at Cannes, The Clio Awards, The New York Film Festival and the One Show of the Art Director’s Club of New York.

He has been a featured speaker in such widely diversified venues as Helsinki, Hong Kong, and Bombay.

Leighton now writes full time. He has two daughters in The Netherlands and two more in the United States. He and his wife spend much of their time in Brazil, her native country.