Michael White (author)
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
- The Venetian Detective (a novel as Michael White)
- The Kennedy Conspiracy (2012) (a novel as Michael White)
- The Art of Murder (2011) (a novel as Michael White)
- (2011) Nano ( a novel as Sam Fisher).
- (2010) Aftershock (a novel as Sam Fisher).
- (2009) State of Emergency (a novel, under the name of Sam Fisher)
- (2009) The Borgia Ring (a novel)
- (2008) The Medici Secret (a novel)
- (2007) Coffee With Newton (non-fiction)
- (2007) Galileo Antichrist, a Biography
- (2006) Equinox (a novel)
- (2004) C. S. Lewis: Creator of Narnia
- (2005) A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: The Science of Doctor Who
- (2005) The Fruits of War
- (2004) Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood
- (2003) A History of the 21st Century (with Gentry Lee) - Korean translation version
- (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)
References
- ↑ Michael White and Andrew Laming
- ↑ Callow, Simon (August 3, 2007). "Review: Galileo Antichrist". The Guardian.