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About Michael Bird (author)
- Michael Bird (born 12 April 1958) is a British author and art historian.
- He was born in London and educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Merton College, Oxford.
- After teaching at Sherborne School he worked in publishing, including a stint on the editorial team of the Macmillan Dictionary of Art (now Oxford Art Online).
- Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Bird published poetry, essays and reviews.
- His books on modern British art include monographs on the artists Sandra Blow (2005), Bryan Wynter (2010), Lynn Chadwick (2014) and George Fullard (2017),The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008, 2nd edn.
- 2016) and Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain (2018).
- He has also written a history of art for children, Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories (2016). Bird has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Modern Painters, Tate Etc and PN Review.
- His work for radio includes contributions to the BBC arts programmes Kaleidoscope, Night Waves and The Essay, and features for BBC Radio 3 and 4, including The Wreck of the Alba (2009), based on a painting by Alfred Wallis, Lanyon's Last Flight (2011), The Flower Fields (2012) and Frost–Heron (2017). Bird was National Life Stories Goodison Fellow in 2016.
- In 2018 he was appointed Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.Bird lives in Cornwall with his wife, the artist Felicity Mara.
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