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Irwin Allan Sealy was born in Allahabad and educated at Lucknow and Delhi. He is the author of The Trotternama. His other novels include The Everest Hotel, The Brainfever Bird and Red. His Yukon to Yucatan is the account of an overland journey from the Arctic Sea to the Gulf of Mexico; more recent travels produced the pen-and-ink drawings of his China Sketchbook. Zelaldinus, his portrait of Jalaluddin Akbar, is a cycle of Fatehpur Sikri poems. A memoir, The Small Wild Goose Pagoda, is set in Dehra Dun, where he now lives.