A.L. Means grew up in Britain and has lived in and around Phoenix, Arizona, for 30 years. As a journalist, he has covered music, entertainment and the arts for British and U.S. media.
In addition to the novel Shine Like The Sun, his works of fiction include a set of short stories entitled Foreign Ways and a children’s story, The Trouble Upstream. 
As Andrew Means, he has written biographies of novelist and essayist George Orwell and the rock group Pink Floyd as well as Some Memories, a memoir about the childhood of the late Country-Western singer Marty Robbins, who lived in the Phoenix area in the years before World War Two.