Cox, Michael, 1948-2009

LC control no.	n 84231739
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6103.O976
Personal name heading	Cox, Michael, 1948-2009 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	0000000114531302
Associated country	Great Britain England
Birth date	1948-10-25
Death date	2009-03-31
Place of birth	Wellingborough (England)
Place of death	Kettering (England)
Field of activity	Thrillers (Fiction) Biographies Copy editing Music
Profession or occupation	Authors Copy editors Musicians
Found in	His Handbook of Christian spirituality, 1985: CIP title page (Michael Cox) book jacket (specialized in English literature and comparative religion at Cambridge University; author of M.R. James) Phone call to publisher, 12-19-84 (Michael Cox; b. 10/25/48) LC data base, 12-19-84 (hdg.: Cox, Michael) His M.R. James, an informal portrait, 1983: CIP title page (Michael Andrew Cox) book title page (Michael Cox) Times online WWW site, Apr. 6, 2009 (Michael Cox; b. October 25, 1948, Northamptonshire; d. March 31, 2009; publisher's editor who scored a sensational success with his atmospheric first novel, The meaning of night) Independent WWW site, viewed December 3, 2020 Obituaries page (Michael Cox; born in Wellingborough on October 25, 1948; he went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where an academic career looked likely until he was asked to perform a score for a friend's silent film; a talent scout saw him and he was offered a contract, releasing 2 albums on EMI under the name Matthew Ellis; in 1977 he began working for the publisher Thorsons; in 1979 he published The subversive vegetarian; he was now a freelance copy editor and one of his employers was OUP, for whom he had written a biography of M.R. James; he also wrote the novels The meaning of night and The glass of time; he died in Kettering on March 31, 2009)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 82111465