Les Hinton was born in Bootle, Merseyside, England. He is the son of a wandering British Army sergeant and grew up in Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Germany, Singapore, and Australia. In Adelaide, Australia, he took his first job as a 15-year-old copy boy with an Adelaide newspaper owned by a young Rupert Murdoch. As Murdoch’s empire grew, he worked for him as a reporter, foreign correspondent, editor, and then one of his most senior executives, managing newspapers, magazines, and TV stations. He lives in New York and London with his wife Kath. His debut novel Dying Days was published in November 2025.
