Michael Carson
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Michael Carson is the pen name of author Michael Wherly. He is most well known for his Benson trilogy of books, about a young man growing up Catholic and Homosexual.
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[edit] Childhood and Education
Carson was born in 1946 in Wallasey. He was brought up a devout Catholic.
After attending university at Aberystwyth and Oxford, and training at International House World Organisation, he spent twenty years teaching English as a Foreign Language primarily in Africa.
He has lectured in writing at Liverpool John Moores University University of Liverpool and the University of Lancaster. He mentors for Crossing Borders, a project to encourage African writers. [1]
Carson won the Writers Inc prize in 2006 for his story All over the Place. [2]
He has also worked as a lifeguard. [3]
[edit] Works
[edit] The Benson Trilogy
Sucking Sherbet Lemons ISBN 0-552-99348-4
Stripping Penguins Bare ISBN 0-552-99465-0
Yanking Up The Yoyo ISBN 0-552-99524-X
[edit] Other Novels
Friends and Infidels ISBN 0-552-99380-8
Coming Up Roses ISBN 0-552-99421-9
Demolishing Babel ISBN 0-385-40431-X
Dying in Style ISBN 1-853-71817-3
Hubbies ISBN 1-853-71678-2
The Knight of the Flaming Heart ISBN 0-385-40651-7
[edit] Short stories
Carson released a collection of short stories in 1993, Serving Suggestions published by Victor Gollancz (ISBN 0-552-99586-X). Some short stories by Michael Carson have also featured on BBC Radio Four. [4]
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