JOHN PINKNEY is a popular Australian author, screenwriter and journalist.His Kindle ebooks include Australia's Strangest Mysteries [***and now,its companion-volume AUSTRALIA'S STRANGEST MYSTERIES #2]...Haunted: the Ghosts that Share Our World...The Mary Celeste Syndrome:Ships from which All Human Life has Vanished...Alien Airships Over Old America...A Paranormal File...Thirst: An Inheritance of Evil...The Girl Who Touched Infinity...The Key and the Fountain.John's original screenplay Thirst, directed by Rod Hardy and produced by Anthony I. Ginnane, won Best Horror Film prize at the Asian Film Festival. His three-act drama, The Face in the Mirror, was co-awarded Best Stage Play in the General Motors/Elizabethan Theatre Trust competition.He has written several hundred drama episodes for TV - and his paperbooks, including such titles as Great Australian Mysteries 1 & 2, Unsolved and Unexplained, have been numerously reprinted. His 3-volume Mazeworld series has been published in North America and in translation through Europe. His logic puzzle books Think!, Think Again! and Wordgames were published by Macmillan in Australia and UK.For many years John was a prominent writer with Australia's Age newspaper, subsequently moving his column Pinkney Place to News Limited's national daily The Australian. Here, he covered what was arguably the most extraordinary UFO case in history: the disappearance without trace of young Melbourne pilot Frederick Valentich, after radioing Flight Services that he was being 'orbited' by a gigantic craft. Hobby photographer Roy Manifold sent John Pinkney a series of six shots he had taken 20 minutes before pilot Valentich's final broadcast. Unaware that the pictures contained anything more than an ocean sunset, Roy did not look at the prints for two weeks. The photographs, one of which showed a large object crossing the sky in a burst of speed, were analyzed by physicists and aerospace engineers at the US organization Ground Saucer Watch. Their conclusion: the anomalous intruder was a bona fide unidentified flying object, possibly metallic, apparently surrounded by a cloud-like exhaust or vapor residue.[The famous photograph appears in A Paranormal File. And Pinkney's deep-probing analysis of the case - including the official6-minute* transcript of Valentich's conversation with Flight Control - can be found in Australia's Strangest Mysteries #2. * Some investigators believe the actual recorded conversation extends beyond 30 minutes, and contains material deliberately withheld from the public.]John Pinkney has had a lifelong interest in the unsolved and unexplained. This preoccupation took a particularly practical form when,with lawyer-friend Peter Norris he co-founded the organization known today as VUFORS - the Victorian UFO Research Society. John and Peter also collaborated to produce the weekly radio series The Truth Behind UFOs and Do You Believe in Ghosts?Over the years John's broadcasts and columns have attracted a large mail from people describing their experiences with the mysterious and the bizarre. Readers of his books continue the input.John has a daughter Robin and a son Matthew. He is married to Maggie, an anthologist and book editor. They live in Australia, in a house near the sea.