Allen E WallsAllen E. Walls was born on February 10, 1948, in the small community of Puce in Maidstone Township, now known as the Town of Lakeshore, just outside of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

He was the youngest of ten children and attended a one-room eementary school for eight years, SS #9. He graduated from Essex District High School and then proceeded to George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, earning a diploma in carpentry.

Allen worked as a journeyman carpenter for ten years and then enrolled at the University of Windsor. He continued to the University of Toronto, Faculty of Education. After thirty-two years as a secondary school teacher, he retired from the Greater Essex County Board of Education.

Before he passed away, Allen lived on the farm of his grandparents, Henry and Parthena Perry Walls, with his wife, Connie, and their dog, Spyke, and cat, Spencer.

The author and his wife, Connie, have also published the children's book The Adventures of Spyke and Spencer, a book that teaches children important values and promotes positive messages like "be a friend, not a bully," "it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice" and "to have a friend, you have to be a friend."

He also co-authored, with high school vice-principal Christine Walls and retired high school teacher Winston Walls, a Teachers' Guide based on the book The Road That Led to Somewhere by Dr. Bryan Walls. Read More Read Less