Michael Wilding (writer)
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R. Michael Wilding (born 1942 in Worcester, England) is an author and professor of English and Australian Literature. He is also a founder of the Australian publishing company Wild & Woolley.
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and then won a scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. He became Professor of English and Australian literature at the University of Sydney, Australia, after teaching in England.
He is internationally renowned for his short stories and literary criticism and has entries in The Oxford Dictionary of Australian Literature and The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. He has written many books, including West Midlands Underground, Wildest Dreams and Milton's Paradise Lost and has edited The Oxford Dictionary of Short Stories.
[edit] Short stories
- The Sybarites
- The Man of Slow Feeling