Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the British novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith, who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone. Trevor worked in many genres, but is principally remembered for his 1964 adventure story The Flight of the Phoenix, written as Elleston Trevor, and for a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller, written under the pseudonym Adam Hall. Born in England, Spain and France before moving in 1973 to the United States, where he lived in Phoenix, Arizona. He was married and had a son.