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Michael Marshall Smith

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Born

in Knutsford, Cheshire, The United Kingdom

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http://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com


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Mystery & Thrillers, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy


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Michael Marshall (Smith) is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, ONLY FORWARD, won the August Derleth and Philip K. Dick awards. SPARES and ONE OF US were optioned for film by DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, and the Straw Men trilogy - THE STRAW MEN, THE LONELY DEAD and BLOOD OF ANGELS - were international bestsellers. His most recent novels are THE INTRUDERS, BAD THINGS and KILLER MOVE.

He is a four-time winner of the BFS Award for short fiction, and his stories are collected in two volumes - WHAT YOU MAKE IT and MORE TOMORROW AND OTHER STORIES (which won the International Horror Guild Award).

He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife and son.






Michael Marshall Smith

British writer and screenwriter (born 1965)

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

Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger.

Biography

Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Smith moved with his family at an early age to first Illinois and then Florida. When he was seven, the family moved again, this time to South Africa, and then to Australia before eventually returning home to England in 1973.[1]

He was educated at Chigwell School, where he was in Swallows House and dated fellow pupil and future senior Sky News editor Sally Arthy, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Philosophy, Social and Political Science, and became involved with the Cambridge Footlights.[2] Under the pseudonym of Michael Rutger, he moved on to become a comedy writer and performer on the BBC Radio 4 series And Now in Colour, which has been described[by whom?]

 
Michael Marshall Smith
Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, in 1965, Michael Marshall Smith (at age 1 or so) and family moved to the USA, first Illinois, and then Florida. At 7, he moved to South Africa then Australia, spending a year in each before finally returning to England in the early 70s. He went on to study Philosophy and Social & Political Science at King's College, Cambridge, where he became involved with the Cambridge Footlights, a comedy revue troupe that had produced such luminaries as the Monty Python team, Emma Thompson, David Baddiel and others. Then it was on to be a revue comedy writer and performer with "The Throbbs" on the BBC Radio 4 series And Now In Colour....

His first story to be accepted for publication was "The Dark Land" (winning the BFS award for best short story in 1992) although the first to be published was "The Man Who Drew Cats" winning the British Fantasy Award for best short story in 1991. His first novel, Only Forward, captured the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in 1995. Smith won yet another British Fantasy Award for

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