Born in the Indian sub-continent, Dilip Hiro was educated in India, Britain and America, where he received a Master's degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He then settled in London in the mid-1960s, and became a full-time writer, journalist and commentator. He has published 34 books (available in 88 editions at Amazon.com: Dilip Hiro) and contributed to another 18. Three of his earlier books were re-issued by the publisher in 2013.