Michael White

Michael White is a British writer based in Sydney, Australia. Born in 1959, he studied at King's College London and was a Chemistry lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford.
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 was then a member of the group The Thompson Twins. 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. His most recent non-fiction book is Galileo: Antichrist, a biography of the great scientist and religious radical. Novels following Equinox include: The Medici Secret, The Borgia Ring and The Art of Murder.