Michael Dean Author & Translator

Michael Dean has a history degree from Worcester College, Oxford, an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University and a translator’s qualification (AIL) in German. His novels are The Crooked Cross (Endeavour Press, new edition 2018) about Hitler and art; Thorn, (Bluemoose Books, 2011) about Spinoza and Rembrandt; Magic City, (Odyssey Press new edition 2017) a Bildungsroman; I, Hogarth (Duckworth-Overlook, 2012), which set out to unify Hogarth’s life with his art; and The White Crucifixion, a novel about Marc Chagall (Holland Park Press, 2018) He has also written three e-book novels for Endeavour Press: The Enemy Within (2013), about Jewish resistance in the Netherlands in World War II; Hour Zero (2014), about Germany in 1946; and Before the Darkness (2015), about Walther Rathenau and the Weimar Republic. His non-fiction includes a book about Chomsky and many educational publications.