George Hagen was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1958. He lived in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) then moved with his family to Great Britain in 1964. In 1969 he moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in the United States and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts as a Film Major.
He optioned and wrote screenplays in Hollywood, drew cartoons, and wrote magazine articles before writing novels. Among his many different jobs, he has been a cinema usher, paper boy, farm hand, executive secretary, word-processor and carpenter.
His first novel was THE LAMENTS, a story about the adventures of a traveling family, was published in 2003 by Random House.
TOM BEDLAM, his second novel, was published in 2006, also by Random House. It was a Victorian-style saga about an orphan who transcends a harsh London childhood to become a doctor in South Africa, rescues his children from the ravages of WWI, and unravels the secret truth about his childhood.
George lives in New York City with his wife and children.