Michael Cronin

Michael Cronin was born in Cranfield, Bedfordshire during the Second World War. His father worked at a local airfield repairing Wellington Bombers while Michael was brought up in Bristol, attending the Christian Brothers School before going on to Queen Mary College at the University of London to study English.

Michael has lived in London for nearly thirty years, and has been a professional actor for most of his working life. He is most remembered as 'Bullet' Baxter the gym teacher in the BBC's Grange Hill, but has also made a number of television appearances in programmes such as The Sweeney, Fawlty Towers, Bergerac, and Poirot, as well as numerous appearances in the theatre all over the world. He has also written two film scripts, No Final Truth and Stealing the Fire, both broadcast nationally in 1992/3. He has recently appeared in a BBC Schools production of Macbeth, broadcast in 1998.

Through the Night is his second novel, with his third novel, In the Morning publishing in October 2005. His first novel, Against the Day, was shortlisted for the Angus Book Award.

Michael lives in London with his wife and two sons.