James Herriot

James Herriot was the pen name of James Alfred Wight, a British veterinary surgeon who drew on his years in practice to write. Born in Sunderland in 1916, he graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College and practised in Yorkshire for almost 50 years. He is best known for All Creatures Great and Small and its sequels, including All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful and The Lord God Made Them All, which follow his work with animals and their owners in the Yorkshire Dales. He died in 1995.