Geoffrey Wells lives on Long Island, where he writes, shoots and edits video. In South Africa, his early teenage years were split between boarding school and the family farm where he fell in love with the outdoors and spent vacations climbing the Drakensberg Mountains and watching elephants in Botswana. His fascination with music theory grew from piano lessons and playing drums in a rock and roll band.
After high school he was conscripted into a South African army commando unit based at the edge of the Kalahari Desert. He fell in love with the desert nights, though loathed defending a government that enforced racism.
In 1973 Wells and a friend drove to Mozambique, and took a river boat to see the hippos. This trip became the genesis of his first novel, A FADO FOR THE RIVER (Amazon.com 2011)
In 1980 Wells immigrated to the US, settling in Los Angeles. He learned the crafts of filmmaking, and graduated from the American Film Institute in 1993. While studying there, he worked at a Beverly Hills hotel, where he served many rock stars. In 2001, Geoffrey wrote, produced and edited a short animated film, THE SHADOW OF DOUBT with his illustrator wife, Cynthia Wells, who animated and directed it. The film showed in 27 film festivals and won five awards.
In 2003 he climbed Kilimanjaro to the summit. 
Corporate life started at the McCann-Erickson ad agency in South Africa, where he rose to Art Director. In the US, he served as Director of Marketing and PR for a film distribution company and later joined the Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Television where he rose to VP of information systems for the ABC Television Stations. In 2005 he became Chief Information Officer and VP of IT for the Fox Television Stations.
In 2012, Geoffrey Wells moved with his wife to the North Fork where he blogs, vlogs and tweets about cyber privacy, music and sustainable ecology, and looks forward to connecting with readers at www.geoffreywellsfiction.com, and on YouTube and Facebook.