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James Herriot was the pen name of real life vetinarian James Alfred Wight born in 1916 in Sunderland, England. His parents moved to Glasgow almost immediately. He graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939 and joined Yorkshire practice of J. Donald Sinclair in 1940. In 1966 he began writing and his first book was published in 1972 All Creatures Great and Small. After a long and fulfilled life he passed away in 1995 at the age of 78.

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