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Michael
Carroll was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1966.
At the age of 16 he left school and worked as a postman
for the following three and a half years. During that
time
he taught himself how to program computers, perhaps
the only benefit of working unsocial hours and not having
enough friends.
After
leaving the post office he spent the next fourteen
years in the computer industry performing a wide range
of unsavoury tasks, all of which could - and often did -
make a grown man cry.
Always a
late developer, Carroll was in his early twenties
before he started writing teenage angst poetry. After
realizing that there are only so many words one can
rhyme with "despair", he graduated to short
fiction and
then novels, most of which thus far have been of the
Young Adult variety.
He now
writes full-time, in a variety of genres under
several pseudonyms. He is the author of nineteen
novels, more than fifty short stories, hundreds of
articles and countless movie and book reviews. In
the past he has been chairman of the Irish
Science
Fiction Association, editor of its fiction
magazine FTL,
co-founder of, editor of and regular contributor to
the humour magazine PFJ, a member of the Executive
Committee of the Irish Writers' Union and editor
of
its newsletter.
In his
spare time - of which there is not enough - he
dabbles with computer graphics, designs and manages
websites, writes autobiographical pieces in the third
person and does his best to avoid being drafted onto
any more committees. Michael Carroll has no children,
but he does have a wife and two cats, all of whom are
very cute (particularly the former).
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