M. R. Carey (1) (1959–)
Author of The Girl with All the Gifts
For other authors named M. R. Carey, see the disambiguation page.
M. R. Carey (1) has been aliased into Mike Carey.
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Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Contributor — 11 copies
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- Other names
- Carey, Mike
- Birthdate
- 1959
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Agent
- Meg Davis
- Short biography
- Mike Carey (born 1959), also known by his pen name M. R. Carey, is a British writer of comic books, novels, and films, known for the novel The Girl with All the Gifts, as well as its 2016 film adaptation.
Carey was born in Liverpool, England, in 1959 – describing his young self as "one of those ominously quiet kids... who lived so much inside my own head I only had vestigial limbs". As a child, he maintained an interest in comics, writing and drawing primitive stories to entertain his younger brother. He studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford, before becoming a teacher. He continued to teach for 15 years before moving on to writing comics.
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