He won the H. H. Wingate Award for non-fiction for The Journey Back From Hell, an account of the lives of survivors after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps.
[4][5] Gill was born in Ilford, Essex, and educated at Chigwell School and Clare College, Cambridge.
He has published over 40 books[citation needed] on a variety of ancient and contemporary historical subjects, including three biographies.
In fiction, he has written a series of historical mysteries set in Ancient Egypt, during the Amarna Period.
He is also the author of two major biographies, on William Dampier and Peggy Guggenheim, and a study of Michelangelo, Il Gigante.