Michael Bird

Michael Bird is a writer and independent art historian. He was born in London and read English at Merton College, Oxford. He is author of a dozen books, including 'This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists', 'Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney', 'Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain', '100 Ideas that Changed Art' and 'The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time'. His children's history of art, 'Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories', has been translated into twenty languages. He is co-author, with his son Orlando, of 'Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe'.

In 2016, Michael was National Life Stories Goodison Fellow at the British Library, and in 2018–21 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter. In 2022 he co-curated 'Living the Landscape: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and the Artists of St Ives' at the Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen. He lives in Cornwall with his wife, the artist Felicity Mara.

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