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Herron, Mick

LC control no.nr2003031437
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6108.E77
Personal name headingHerron, Mick
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Other standard no.0000 0000 5270 9135
24546389
Q24929761
Associated placeLondon (England)
LocatedOxford (England)
Birth date1963
Place of birthNewcastle upon Tyne (England)
Field of activityThrillers Detective and mystery fiction Spy fiction
Spy stories
Profession or occupationWriters
Found inDown Cemetery Road, 2003 : t.p. (Mick Herron)
The last voice you hear, 2004: t.p. (Mick Herron) jkt. (b. in Newcastle upon Tyne; degree in English lit.; lists works)
Author's GoodReads page, Feb 25, 2017 (Mick Herron ; Born Newcastle upon Tyne, The United Kingdom ; Genre: Mystery, Thriller ; Mick Herron was born in Newcastle and has a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of three books in the Slough House series as well as a mystery series set in Oxford featuring Sarah Tucker and/or P.I. Zoë Boehm. He now lives in Oxford and works in London.)
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925), Dec. 5 2022: in an article entitled "Counter-espionage" by Jill Lepore on page 28 (Mick Herron has never been a secret-agent, except insofar as all writers are spies. For the longest stretch of his professional life, Herron worked in London in the legal department of an employment-issues research firm, copy-editing journal articles, etc. about employment discrimination and wrongful termination; nights he wrote detective fiction; developed the idea of Slough House, a place where M.I.5 puts bad spies out to pasture)
Associated languageeng