Short Bio on Carter Brown

Carter Brown was the name of a byline used by Alan Geoffry Yates. Yates was born in London on  August 1st 1923. He moved to Sydney in 1948 after WW II. He began writing in 1948 and a full time writer in 1953. His first Carter Brown was published in September 1951 with the title The Lady is Murder under the byline Peter Carter Brown. Carter Brown has been published upwards to over 80,000,000 books. He published books in USA from 1958 (The Body) until 1983 (Double of The Pipes Are Calling/The Early Boyd). Mr Yates died on May 5th 1985.