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Michael Andrew Cox (1948-2009) == Biography == Michael Cox attended Wellingborough Grammar School, later graduating from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1971. He studied English and had intended to be an academic, but he instead signed a contract with the record-publishing group EMI and made two albums and several singles under the pseudonym Matthew Ellis. He also recorded an album for DJM as Obie Clayton. Cox dedicated both of his novels to Dizzy Crockett who he married in 1973. They later had a daughter.〔 In 1977, he joined Thorsons Publishing Group (later part of Harper Collins) Cox first book was a biography of M. R. James, a Victorian ghost story writer and this was published in 1983 by Oxford University Press. Between 1983 and 1997 he compiled and edited several anthologies of Victorian short stories for Oxford University Press and the first two were co-edited by R. A. Gilbert. In 1989 Cox joined Oxford University Press, where he became senior commissioning editor〔"The Guardian, Monday 6 April 2009"〕 and there completed encyclopaedic work: compiling ''A Dictionary of Writers and their Works'' (1991) and ''The Oxford Chronology of English Literature'' (2002). His first novel, The Meaning of Night, was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the 2006 Costa first novel award. Inspired by authors such as Charles Dickens (a childhood favorite), Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Braddon, this thriller novel is set both in a dirty, corrupting 1850's London, and Evenwood, an idyllic country estate - both equally full of mysteries. It was followed by a sequel, The Glass of Time set twenty years later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Cox (novelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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