About the Author
Kevin Rice, author of Innocents Abroad, was born in Birmingham
in 1947. He was educated at a school in Birmingham, and on leaving
school got a job as a computer operator. In this job he learned how
to write programmes for a mainframe, such as you had in the 1960's.
He left that job after a year, and had a series of jobs.
In his 20's he became involved with the psychiatric system. He
couldn't get a job, because there was no work, and nobody wanted to
employ anybody with a past mental illness. This led to him going
into hospital long term.
Whilst in hospital, he attended education classes, mostly in
science and IT, since his knowledge of computers was now a bit out
of date. He also read, and watched TV documentaries, which enabled
him to acquire the knowledge necessary to write Innocents abroad.
He was in a number of hospitals until 2007, and was then discharged
to a half way house, since by now he had almost recovered.
He still lives in the half way house today, and wrote Innocents
Abroad in a narrative context, hoping to help put mental illness in
a more favourable light, so that in the future, nobody will be
refused a job because of a past mental illness like he was in his
20's.
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