Sean Thomas Russell (born 30 January 1952) is a Canadian writer of fantasy, and of historical novels featuring the Royal Navy.
At the age of three his family moved to the outskirts of the city, where they lived in a cottage at the beach of Lake Ontario.
At the age of ten he decided to become an author, and the fantasy genre caught him years later, while reading J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
Sean Russell wrote these books in collaboration with Ian Dennis under their common pen-name T. F. Banks.
Written as by Sean Thomas Russell, these books are historical fiction about HMS Themis, a Royal Navy frigate, at the time of the French Revolution.