Michael White (author)

For other people named Michael White, see Michael White (disambiguation).

Michael White is a British writer based in Sydney, Australia. Born in 1959, he studied at King's College London (1977-1982) and was a Chemistry lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford (1984-1991).

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 Colour me Pop. Colour Me Pop featured on the "Europe in the Year Zero" EP in 1982 with Yazoo and Sudeten Creche and he was then a member of the group The Thompson Twins (1982).[1] He moved to Australia in 2002 and was made an Honorary Research Fellow at Curtin University in 2005.

He is the author of thirty-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 35 languages. A recent non-fiction book is Galileo: Antichrist, a biography of the great scientist and religious radical.[2] Novels following Equinox include: The Medici Secret, The Borgia Ring and The Art of Murder.

White has also written three novels under the name Sam Fisher - State of Emergency, Aftershock and Nano. They form The E-Force trilogy.

White writes under two further names, Tom West and Sam Fisher mentioned above.

A further novel by White features Galileo, Elizabeth and the like. It is called "The Venetian Detective".

Michael White wrote a biography of Isaac Newton The Last Sorcerer. He has been both short-listed and long-listed for the Aventis prize - Rivals short-listed in 2002 and The Fruits of War long-listed in 2006. He was also nominated for the Ned Kelly Prize for First Novel (for Equinox in 2007).

Bibliography

References

  1. Michael White and Andrew Laming
  2. Callow, Simon (August 3, 2007). "Review: Galileo Antichrist". The Guardian.

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