Geoff Lee was born in the Lancashire glass town of St Helens in September 1939 on the first full day of the war, although it is believed that this was just a coincidence. He first worked at Prescot for BICC (British Insulated Callender's Cables), but known locally as the Biggest Individual Collection of Comedians. Since then, until retiring, he was employed as an engineering draughtsman in London in the Swinging Sixties and on returning North in 1972 in Hull and then from 1976 onwards in West Yorkshire at companies in Halifax, Bradford, Harrogate and Leeds.

His first novel One Winter was published in November 1999, his second One Spring in April 2002, his third One Summer in 2005 and most recently in November 2007, One Autumn, his final account of life in the twentieth century and again based on the old saying about being at work: “They could write a book about this place. It would be a best seller.” He is a leading member of the Rugby League Supporters' Association and is responsible for the distribution of its quarterly magazine The Greatest Game which he also frequently writes for.

He now lives in Shipley in West Yorkshire