Background
Mick Jackson was born in 1960, in Great Harwood, Lancashire, and educated at Queen Elizabeth"s Grammar School, Blackburn.
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University of East Anglia.
Career
Jackson worked in local theatre, studied theatre arts at Dartington College of Arts, and played in a rock band called The Screaming Abdabs. In 1990, he enrolled in a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, and began working on The Underground Manitoba He has been a full-time writer since 1995.
He is best known for his novel The Underground Manitoba (1997), based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland.
The book was shortlisted for the Manitoba, and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel. Jackson"s other works are the novels Five Boys (2002) and The Widow"s Tale (2010), and the short story collections Ten Sorry Tales (2006) and The Bears of England (2009).
Under the pseudonym Kirkham Jackson, he wrote the screenplay for the 2004 television film Roman Road. He lives in Brighton.
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