Ken Methold graduated from the University of London as a teacher, specialising in primary education, speech and drama. He taught for 5 years in the UK before joining the British Council for an assignment in Thailand. At the end of his contract he established his own business in Bangkok, Asia Books, which he sold when he joined Longman, the publishers for which he travelled widely throughout Asia. He migrated to Australia in l974. He became actively involved in arts politics and served as the Chairman or Acting Chairman of the Australian Society of Authors for 5 years. He was one of the founding Directors of Copyright Agency Ltd - the photocopying fee collection body - and he initiated the successful campaign to get Educational Lending Right for Australian authors. He has been a member of the B.A. (Professional Writing) degree accreditation committee of the University of Canberra, a playwright in residence at the University of Southern Queensland, and a guest lecturer on a number of occasions at The National Playwright's Conference.

He was on the boards of the now defunct National Book Council and Film Queensland. For several years he was active in Amnesty International and Vice-President of the Queensland Branch. Before leaving the U.K. Ken contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Countryman, and Contemporary Review. In Australia he was for many years the science fiction reviewer for The Australian and Omega Science Digest, and has contributed to numerous other periodicals in Australia and overseas. Ken Methold has had many textbooks published for students of English as a Foreign Language, with legal sales in excess of 20 million copies world wide, and untold millions more of pirated editions. He has won two Writers Guild awards for radio writing and three of his radio plays have been adapted for the stage and performed widely in Australia. Now semi-retired Ken Methold spends most of his time writing and producing fully dramatised audio versions of children's classics for the Kiama Lions Children's Audio Theatre - a charitable project developed especially for visually handicapped children. An almost complete list of his publications and produced scripts can be found on this website.