Ray Brown was born in Belfast, UK, and educated there and at the University of Oxford and University of Reading, He spent many years as a teacher and consultant for the British Council and during that time lived in Europe, West and Central Africa, North Africa, South Asia, Egypt, East Asia, South America, the former Soviet Union and China. This has given him a wide knowledge of different cultures and different value and belief systems which contributes to the authority he is able to bring to his writing.
He now lives in France, devoting his time to writing, reading and country walking.