Tony Thomson was born in the Hydrostone District of Halifax and spent much of his youth on Lawrencetown Beach, where his parents had a cottage and later built a permanent home. He graduated from Graham Creighton High School and studied at Dalhousie and the University of Cambridge, where he completed a doctorate in social and political science. He enjoyed a long career teaching sociology at Acadia University, and still teaches part-time. He and his wife, Heather Frenette, worked on restoring a century home in Canning, where they raised two children, Julia and Devon. They now also enjoy their two grandchildren. In addition to articles, book chapters, and two co-authored books, Tony has written two volumes on the history of social thought, published by Oxford University Press: The Making of Social Theory: order, reason, and desire and Modern Social Thought: an introduction.About Face is his first work of fiction.