Rowena Farre was a British author who spent her early childhood with her parents in Hong Kong, or possibly India. At the age of ten, her parents sent her to live with an aunt in Scotland and later she wrote her first autobiographical novel based on her life there. During WWII she worked as a Radar Operator on a remote RAF station in Pembrokeshire. Shortly after the publication of her first book in 1957 she disappeared mysteriously and efforts to trace her were unsuccessful. She reappeared in 1962 and published her second book about her life with the gypsies. Her third book, about traveling to the Himalayas to find and learn from a renowned guru, was published in 1969. Rowena Farre died in 1979.