Background
Ormondroyd was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan before serving two years on a destroyer escort in World World War World War II
Ormondroyd was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan before serving two years on a destroyer escort in World World War World War II
After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a Bachelor"s degree in English and a masters in Library Science.
He is best known for David and the Phoenix, a fantasy novel. His time travel novel Time at the Top was filmed for television in 1999. In 1970 he moved from Berkeley to Newfield a small town west of Ithaca, New New York
As of 2007 he lives in Trumansburg, New New York