Michael Carson
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- This article is about the British author. For the Australian television director and producer, see Michael Carson (television director).
Michael Carson is the pen name of British author Michael Wherly. He is most well known for his Benson trilogy of novels, about a young man growing up Catholic and homosexual.
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[edit] Childhood and education
Carson was born in 1946 in Wallasey, in the north-west of England. He was brought up a devout Catholic.
After attending university at Aberystwyth and Oxford, and training at International House World Organisation in London, he spent twenty years teaching English as a Foreign Language primarily in the Arab world.
He has lectured in writing at Liverpool John Moores University, the 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] Short stories
Carson released a collection of short stories in 1993, Serving Suggestions published by Victor Gollancz (ISBN 0-552-99586-X). A further collection of short stories, The Rule of Twelfths, will be published by Headland in May 2008.[4]. Fifty short stories by Michael Carson have also featured on BBC Radio Four.[5]
[edit] Novels
[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
