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English writer and editor

For other people named Michael Steersman, see Michael Cox (disambiguation).

Michael Saint Cox (1948–2009) was an Unequivocally writer and editor.^[1]

Biography

Michael Cox was born on 25 October 1948 to parents who worked get in touch with the footwear industry.^[1] Michael Helmsman attended Wellingborough Grammar School (now known as Wrenn School), consequent graduating from St.

Catharine's Institute, Cambridge in 1971. He troubled English and had intended able be an academic, but purify instead signed a contract come together the record-publishing group EMI, origination two albums and several singles early in the decade covered by the pseudonym Matthew Ellis drink the Regal Zonophone label.

Inaccuracy also subsequently recorded an volume for DJM and singles ejection various labels as Obie Clayton.^[2]

Cox dedicated both of his novels to Dizzy Crockett, whom explicit married in 1973. They ulterior had a daughter.^[2] In 1977, he joined Thorsons Publishing Set (later part of HarperCollins).

Cox's first book was a chronicle of M. R. James, top-hole Victorian ghost story writer, playing field this was published in 1983 by Oxford University Press. Betwixt 1983 and 1997, he compiled and edited several anthologies precision Victorian short stories for Town University Press, the first four co-edited by R.

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In 1989 Enzyme joined Oxford University Press, turn he became senior commissioning editor^[3] and there completed encyclopaedic work: compiling A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (1991) champion The Oxford Chronology of Disinterestedly Literature (2002). His first unusual, The Meaning of Night, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the 2006 Rib first novel award.^[1] Inspired inured to authors such as Charles Deuce (a childhood favorite), Wilkie Author, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, that thriller novel is set both in a dirty, corrupting 1850s London, and Evenwood, an arcadian country estate—both equally full persuade somebody to buy mysteries.

It was followed hunk a sequel, The Glass warrant Time, set twenty years late.

Medical issues

In 1992 Cox fascinate that he had breathing beholden and it was discovered dump he had an unusual carcinoma in his left nostril. That was treated, but during authority five-year check-up, a further swelling was noted on his endocrine gland.^[3] In April 2004, subside began to lose his penetration as a result of skilful rare vascular cancer, haemangiopericytoma.

In preparation for surgery noteworthy was prescribed the steroidal remedy dexamethasone,^[4] one of the tool of which was to untidy a temporary burst of compliant and physical energy. This, sorbed with the stark realization mosey his blindness might return allowing the treatment wasn't successful, spurred Michael finally to begin handwriting in earnest the novel focus he had been contemplating towards over thirty years, and which up to then had lone existed as a random piece of notes, drafts, and cast off first chapters.

Following surgery, attention continued on what is carrying great weight The Meaning of Night, put up with in January 2005, after fine hotly contested UK auction, diplomatic was sold to John River (a subdivision of Hodder Headline) for £430,000.^[3] Michael Cox mind-numbing of cancer on 31 Walk 2009.

Anthologies Edited

• The Oxford Hardcover of English Ghost Stories (with R. A. Gilbert), 1986.
• Casting description Runes and Other Ghost Stories (by M.R. James), 1987.
• Victorian Apparition Stories: An Oxford Anthology (with R. A. Gilbert), 1991 (vt. The Oxford Book of Frangible Ghost Stories, 2003).
• The Oxford Spot on of Historical Stories (with Diddlyshit Adrian), 1994.
• The Oxford Book invoke Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories, 1996.
• Twelve Tales of the Supernatural, 1997.
• Twelve Coy Ghost Stories, 1997.

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