Michael Baldwin (1) (1930–2014)

Michael Jesse Baldwin was born in Gravesend, United Kingdom on May 1, 1930. After school he joined the Thames and Medway Coast Artillery Regiment. He graduated from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford and became a teacher. He also taught residential courses for the Arvon Foundation, a creative writing venture show more that he played an important part in founding and developing. His poems began appearing in magazines in the 1950s, when he became a recognized voice and face in children's programs on radio and television. His poetry collections include Death on a Live Wire and on Stepping from a Sixth-Storey Window and King Horn: Poems Written at Montolieu in Old Languedoc 1969-81, which won the Cholmondeley award for poetry in 1984. He also wrote several novels including Grandad with Snails, The First Mrs. Wordsworth, and Dark Lady. He died on February 3, 2014 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less