Keith Mackenzie Ross comes from an artistic family. His mother painted and his father drew cartoons for his children. His brother was an expert wood carver and artist and his sister wrote poems. One niece is a potter in Latheron, Scotland; another is an artist in Barcelona and a third a photographer. Another  member sculpts animals in bronze, while another is an accomplished ballet dancer.

Keith studied medicine at St John's College, Cambridge, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. After doing 'house jobs' at Kingston-on-Thames and the Mayday Hospital Croydon, he went to the USA to take on a Residency in Medicine at the New Jersey College of Medicine, Newark, New Jersey, USA. He returned  to the UK in 1968 where he met his present wife in Harlow, Essex while working in Paediatrics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Essex. He then spent 27 years in General Practice in Aldershot where he was a trainer and senior partner. he wrote one scientific paper on the 'The use of Transactional Analysis in General Practice.' He retired in 1997. He played the keyboard but found practicing too difficult, and took up writing. 

A second book 'they used me - for their own ends' is due out later this year. Publishers Olympia Publishers.