Michael Feeney Callan

Michael Feeney Callan was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, and started publishing poetry in his teens. He won the Hennessy Literary Award for his short fiction and wrote the major RTE crime series The Burke Enigma. Subsequently he joined BBC Television Drama as a story editor and wrote for ITV's The Professionals. He has pubished two volumes of poems, Fifty Fingers (2003) and An Argument for Sin (2013), several TV and original novels and a series of best-selling and widely translated biographies, among them the first major biography of Sean Connery and the acclaimed authorised biography of Robert Redford, a New York Times bestseller. A painter and filmmaker, he has also produced and directed documentaries on The Beach Boys, animator Don Bluth and Luke Kelly of the Dubliners.