Murray Pomerance was born in 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Magia d'Amore (Sun & Moon, 1999), Savage Time (Oberon Press, 2005), Edith Valmaine (Oberon Press, 2010), Tomorrow (Oberon Press, 2012), The Economist (Oberon Press, 2014), and A King of Infinite Space (Oberon Press, 2016). In addition, he has written numerous books on film including Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), A Dream of Hitchcock (SUNY Press, 2019), and Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic (Bloomsbury, 2019).