Steve Russell grew up in Sydney, Australia and has worked in the stockbroking, airline, hospitality and transport industries amongst other things. He owned and operated an interstate transport company for twenty-five years. In his adventurous youth he travelled and lived in Africa for a year, hitch hiking from Cape Town to Nairobi and back in the early seventies. He spent a year in Europe, working in London then travelling through Europe in a campervan. Travelling through East Germany at the height of the cold war to vibrant West Berlin in 1974. Transited the famous checkpoint Charlie in 1974. He's meddled in politics having served as a Councillor for thirteen years and Mayor of Hornsby for five years, experiencing the highs and lows of politics, the wins, and the losses.Has three adult children and four grandsons, and now lives with his wife Christine on the Hawkesbury River NSW, Australia, on the outskirts of Sydney.His first book, Don't Cry For me, Aunt Tina, whilst fiction is based on some of the events and characters he has encountered and met along that journey.His second book, Night Train to Aswan, is currently in the editorial phase and is expected to be published in July- August 2022Now publishing his Third Book, She'll be Alright Aunt Tina.