Authors Families

  • MG Harris

    MG Harris

    M G (Maria Guadalupe) Harris was born in Mexico City. When her parents split up, five-year-old MG moved to Frankfurt, Germany before moving again to Manchester, England where she married a British cellist from the Halle Orchestra. As a teenager she made regular visits to her father...

  • Michael Byrne

    Michael Byrne

    Michael Byrne worked as an English teacher in a secondary school just a mile from Heathrow. He then moved to Winchester to work as an airport taxi driver. The irony is not lost on him. Michael lives with his daughter Eve and their cat Chloe in Hampshire. He is now a full time writer; Lottery B...

  • Michael Foreman

    Michael Foreman

    Born 1938, in Pakefield, a fishing village in Suffolk, England, Michael Foreman grew up during the Second World War, an experience which has had a lasting and creative influence on his work. He studied painting at Lowestoft School of Art (1954-1958) and then, commercial art, for the next two y...

  • Michael Grant

    Michael Grant

    Michael Grant was born in Los Angeles but that's not important because he was soon out of there. His father was a military man, frequently transferred, so Michael was the "new kid" in school every year but one. He left school early and embraced the rootless lifestyle as his own. He's lived in...

  • Michael Lawrence

    Michael Lawrence

    Michael Lawrence, born in 1943, grew up on a paper mill beside the River Ouse in Huntingdon, before his family moved to a council house in Sudbury. His father was a musician playing for a time for the Mantovani Orchestra - so Lawrence grew up watching his father play with the orchestra on tele...

  • Michael Leach

    Michael Leach

    Dr Michael Leach is a wildlife author. He spent 6 years as cameraman making wildlife films for T. Now he is author of 25 books(translated into 11 languages). Michaels books are based on his own first-hand observations of wildlife in their natural habitat. This research has taken him to some of...

  • Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo

    Multi-award winning author, Michael Morpurgo, is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children. This picture shows him signing books for children at the Party at the Palace in the summer, 2006. Michael was born in 1943 and attended schools in London, Sussex and Canterbury. He studied...

  • Michael Scott

    Michael Scott

    Dublin-born Michael Scott began writing eighteen years ago, and has published such diverse works as a critically-acclaimed fantasy trilogy entitled Tales of the Bard, the best-selling historical novel, Seasons, the non-fiction An Irish Herbal, the definitive Irish Folk and Fairy Tales series,...