Cox, Michael, 1948-2009 (Nombre personal)

His Handbook of Christian spirituality, 1985: CIP title page (Michael Cox) book jacket (specialized in English literature and comparative religion at Cambridge University; author of M.R. James)

Phone call to publisher, 12-19-84 (Michael Cox; b. 10/25/48)

LC data base, 12-19-84 (hdg.: Cox, Michael)

His M.R. James, an informal portrait, 1983: CIP title page (Michael Andrew Cox) book title page (Michael Cox)

Times online WWW site, Apr. 6, 2009 (Michael Cox; b. October 25, 1948, Northamptonshire; d. March 31, 2009; publisher's editor who scored a sensational success with his atmospheric first novel, The meaning of night)

Independent WWW site, viewed December 3, 2020 Obituaries page (Michael Cox; born in Wellingborough on October 25, 1948; he went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where an academic career looked likely until he was asked to perform a score for a friend's silent film; a talent scout saw him and he was offered a contract, releasing 2 albums on EMI under the name Matthew Ellis; in 1977 he began working for the publisher Thorsons; in 1979 he published The subversive vegetarian; he was now a freelance copy editor and one of his employers was OUP, for whom he had written a biography of M.R. James; he also wrote the novels The meaning of night and The glass of time; he died in Kettering on March 31, 2009)