Brian Finney is a writer and Professor Emeritus of Literature at California State University, Long Beach. Educated in England, he obtained a BA from the University of Reading and a PhD from the University of London.  Between 1964-1987 he taught and arranged extra-mural courses for the University of London. Since immigrating to the US in 1987 he has taught at the University of California, Riverside, University of Southern California, UCLA, and California State University, Long Beach.

He has published nine books, including Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (1979) which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize ,  Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society (KDP 2011/2018), and two novels,  Money Matters: A Novel ( 2019), a Finalist for the American Fiction Awards,  and Dangerous Conjectures (2021).

He is married and lives in Venice, California.