Rodney Dale (born 1933), from Haddenham in Cambridgeshire, is an English writer and owner of the publishing company Fern House Publishing. Dale usually writes books about science and engineering but also about urban legends, jazz and Louis Wain. Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.