Henry Terol was born in Alicante in 1958.

An inveterate reader since early childhood, a hobby that combined more bad than good with Math and Latin classes, he preferred to spend his free time in the school playground reading Dickens, Victor hugo and Dumas as well as drawing comics, far from the din of the football matches played by his pals. In his teens he would be carried away by the desire to shoot Super 8 films in which he attempted to recreate the cinematographic world of his salad days with the few means available to him at the time.

In 1978 he collaborated in the creation of the magazine Mocha the Anti-Trocha, together with the nick-named Juan Prestón, future creator of Norma Editions. During the years 1986-1987, he also wrote as an unconventional film critic for The Alicante Guide. In 1988 he read for English Literature at Alicante University. During the long vacation of 198 he did a postgraduate course on English Art and Literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

“Elena’s Smile” is his first novel.

Mythomanic and anglophile, he continues living in Alicante, eternally dreaming of rainy and snowy landscapes.