A. F. Gillotti has degrees from Yale and the University of North Carolina and spent three years in Army intelligence. He worked for Bankers Trust Company in New York for ten years, where he specialized in country lending and ship finance. In 1980 he transferred to London where he worked in corporate finance and private banking for fifteen years. His first novel,
Death of a Ship Owner, was published in 1981. It was followed in 1984 by
Skim, a novel about a banking syndication in West Africa.
Skim was reissued in 2010 by Academy Chicago. A. F. Gillotti lives with his wife, Susan, in Norwich, Vermont.
