Leith C MacArthur was born in Boston and grew up in the suburbs of Wayland, and Waltham Massachusetts. As a young boy he became fascinated with the craft of writing after reading Edgar Alan Poe’s The Raven. Sufficiently inspired, he sought out other depicters of darkness, despair, and redemption, allowing himself to be drawn into the fictitious worlds of mystery and adventure penned by the likes of Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mickey Spillane, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

At the age of ten, Leith began writing short stories and poems that tended toward the macabre. Two years later, he wrote his first novelette, Gerry the Germ, the tale of a lowly life-form who finds his purpose within the Grand Scheme through tragedy and loss. Leith went on to write several novels (slated for future publication) before focusing on several related stories that eventually became The William Snow Series: Beneath the Bridge, The Stones of Mirabella, The Finding Man, The Death of Harry Crow, The Man in the Moon, and The Weight.

Leith lives in the western woods of Rhode Island with GTGC, otherwise known as Grey, the gray cat.