Geert Richt Alexander Kliphuis is an author, songwriter and guitarist, born in the Netherlands in 1955, and currently living in Brussels, Belgium. His father was the art therapist Maks Kliphuis (1923-2015), as a teacher one of the driving forces behind , the social-pedagogic training centre for therapists in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and later head of the department of creative process therapy [1] at the Jelgersma Kliniek of Leiden University. Kliphuis's mother, who died in 1964, was Nel van der Velde, a drama teacher, radio presenter and author of children's books, and poetry and fiction for adults. (Het Kleinere Werk and Het Grotere Werk were published posthumously in 2008/2009 by the Erven Nel Kliphuis-Van der Velde.)