Michael Barrington

Michael Barrington was born in Manchester, England and spent his teenage years at a boarding school in the Lake District. After living in France, he joined a French Order of Missionary priests, and spent ten years in West Africa, several of them during a civil war when he was stood up to be shot. On his return to the UK, he spent a year living as a hermit in Northern Ireland. After teaching in Madrid, Spain for a year he spent for four years in Puerto Rico directing an international student program for Latin America. He now lives near San Francisco and is a full time writer.

His first work “The Bishop Wears No Drawers” (2016) is a memoir of his time spent in Africa, during a civil war. “Let the Peacock Sing” (2020) is an historical novel set against the backdrop of the French Resistance during World War II. His novel "Becoming Anya" is the coming of age of a woman caught between two worlds and two cultures. "The Ethiopian Affair" is an international spy story; is there or is there not a plot to abduct the US ambassador to Ethiopia? His most recent book (Jan 2021) The Baron of Bengal Street, a historical novel centered in Manchester, England at the turn of the 20th. century and the personality of his Irish grandfather.

Michael is married to a beautiful French lady, Annie Jacquemet, a professional painter who designs the covers of his books.

Michael is an experienced public speaker with thirty years of experience. He is available for large and small groups via Zoom and blogs on his website: www.mbwriter.net