Michael White (author)
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Michael White is a British writer based in Perth, Australia. He has been a science editor of British GQ, a columnist for the Sunday Express in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of the band the Thompson Twins (1982).
Between 1984 and 1991 he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of twenty-five books: these include the international best-sellers, Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science; Leonardo: The First Scientist; Tolkien: A Biography; and C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. His first novel Equinox - thriller, an occult mystery reached the Top Ten in the bestseller list in the UK and has been translated into 30 languages. His latest book is Galileo: Antichrist, a biography of the great scientist and religious radical.
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- (2008) The Medici Secret
- (2006) Equinox (a Novel)
- (2004) C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia
- (2005) A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: The Science of Doctor Who
- (2005) The Fruits of War
- (2004) Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood
- (2002) A History of the 21st Century (with Gentry Lee)
- (2002) The Pope and the Heretic
- (2001) Tolkien: A Biography
- (2002) Rivals - shortlisted for the Aventis Prize
- (2000) Thompson Twin: An ’80s Memoir
- (2000) Leonardo: The First Scientist
- Super Science
- (1997) Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
- Life Out There
- Alien Life Forms
- Mind and Matter
- (1996) The Science of the X-Files
- (1994) Asimov: The Unauthorised Biography
- Breakthrough (with Kevin Davies)
- Darwin: A Life in Science (with John Gribbin)
- Einstein: A Life in Science (with John Gribbin)
- Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science' (with John Gribbin)
- Newton (for younger readers)
- Galileo (for younger readers)
- John Lennon (for younger readers)
- Mozart (for younger readers)
