Ivan Bootham

Ivan Bootham (born 1939) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, poet and composer. He was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, and migrated to New Zealand as a teenager. He lived in provincial New Zealand - Invercargill, Auckland, New Plymouth, Levin, Lower Hutt - before settling in Wellington, where he now lives.

He has worked as a book binding apprentice, farm labourer, shoe salesman, ticket writer/window dresser, radio copywriter, radio programme producer, publicity officer for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and in clerical, advisory, administrative and editorial jobs for various Government departments.