Michael White is a British writer based in Sydney, Australia. He has been a science editor of British GQ, a columnist for the Sunday Express in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of the band the Thompson Twins (1982) and Colour me Pop. Colour Me Pop featured on the "Europe in the Year Zero" EP in 1982 with Yazoo and Sudeten Creche.

Between 1984 and 1991 he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of thirty-three books: these include the international best-sellers, Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science; Leonardo: The First Scientist; Tolkien: A Biography; and C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia. His first novel Equinox - thriller, an occult mystery reached the Top Ten in the bestseller list in the UK and has been translated into 30 languages. A book is Galileo: Antichrist, a biography of the great scientist and religious radical. Sequels to Equinox include The Medici Secret and The Borgia Ring. White has also written a novel under the name Sam Fisher called State of Emergency. In 2010 two books are due in the shops, the second in the Pendragon series, The Art of Murder under the name Michael White, and the second as Sam Fisher, Aftershock.

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