Chris d'Lacey is an English writer of children's fiction, best known for writing The Last Dragon Chronicles. He has also written many other books including A Dark Inheritance.

Chris d'Lacey was born in Valetta, Malta. As a child, he moved first to Leicester and then to Bolton. After gaining a degree in biology from the University of York, he returned to Leicester and got a job at the University of Leicester in their Pre-Clinical Sciences department.

Originally, his writing was confined to songs and he didn't turn to fiction until he was 32. His first piece of work was a 250,000 word story about polar bears for his wife, Jay, to accompany a stuffed polar bear he had bought her as a Christmas present. He didn't write another story for seven years until he heard about a competition to write a story for young children with a prize of £2,000. The resulting book, A Hole at the Pole, also about polar bears, didn't win - but it was a start to his writing career.