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David Mitchell


Born
in Southport, Merseyside, England
January 12, 1969

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Genre
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John Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo ...more


David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but wo ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 712,038 ratings · 72,940 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors
Cloud Atlas
4.01 avg rating — 272,906 ratings — published 2004 — 202 editions
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The Bone Clocks
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Black Swan Green
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Ghostwritten
4.04 avg rating — 33,155 ratings — published 1999 — 70 editions
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Utopia Avenue
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The Right Sort
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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
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Polls

March is literary/general fiction month and we will be voting on books which were Man Booker eligible, nominees for the Longlist, Shortlist or winners. I'll list which, and what year, next to each title. Pol is open until February 15.

Oryx and Crake Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood (Shortlist, 2003)
 
  2 votes, 50.0%

In Paradise In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen (MB eligible 2014)
 
  1 vote, 25.0%

Chatterton Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd (Shortlist, 1987)
 
  1 vote, 25.0%

The Bone Clocks The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell David Mitchell (Longlist, 2014)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

The Black Prince The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch (Shortlist, 1973)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Sacred Hunger Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1) by Barry Unsworth Barry Unsworth (Winner, 1992)
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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