Peter B. Fulton Eckardt was born in Massachusetts in 1950. After growing up in Greece, California, Cape Cod and Boston, he went travelling, finally settling in Denmark at the age of 18. He began writing seriously after losing his sight in 1980 and have had two books published in Danish, one non-fiction; Kejserens Nye Kittel, (Tiderne Skifter, 1984) about the Danish health care system, and one fiction; Mågeprædikanten, (Mellemgaard, 2013).