Michael White (author)

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

Michael White is a British writer based in Sydney, 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) and Colour me Pop. Colour Me Pop featured on the "Europe in the Year Zero" EP in 1982 with Yazoo and Sudeten Creche.

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 thirty-three 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. A book is Galileo: Antichrist, a biography of the great scientist and religious radical. Sequels to Equinox include The Medici Secret and The Borgia Ring. White has also written a novel under the name Sam Fisher called State of Emergency. In 2010 two books were due, the second in the Pendragon series, The Art of Murder under the name Michael White, and the second as Sam Fisher, Aftershock.

Bibliography

• (2009) State of Emergency (a novel, under the name of Sam Fisher)
• (2009) The Borgia Ring (also a novel)
• (2008) The Medici Secret (also a novel)
• (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
• (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)

External links

• Official website

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