詹姆斯•斯丘達穆爾（James Scudamore）

童年時居所不定，曾居住在日本、巴西、厄瓜多爾、英國，獲得瞭牛津大學現代語的最高學位。

大學畢業後在廣告界工作瞭四年，創作齣瞭轟動一時的作品。之後，他感到就廣告專業而言，已經做到瞭自己的極緻，於是轉而嘗試寫作。《失憶診所》是他的處女作，寫成之後，驚艷文壇。

Anti and Fabin are best friends and classmates at the Quito International School. Anti (short for Anthony) is the quiet, asthmatic English kid, and Fabin is the charismatic and flamboyant local. Anti lives in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents, while Fabin lives with his cool, eccentric Uncle Suarez. Suarez, a storyteller par excellence, infects the boys with his passion for outlandish tales. Before long, the relationship between these two fifteen-year-olds becomes one conducted entirely through the medium of storytelling, and they lose sight of the boundaries between fact and fiction. With confused emotions and a tenuous grip on reality, the boys embark on a quixotic voyage across Ecuador in search of an Amnesia Clinic that may or may not exist. A complex and beautifully crafted piece of storytelling about storytelling itself, The Amnesia Clinic explores how truth can be so very much more fanciful than fact, and how the collision between fantasy and reality can lead to harmful delusions.