Michael Feeney Callan

Michael Feeney Callan was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, and started publishing poetry in his teens. He won the Hennessy Literary Award for his short fiction and wrote the major RTE crime series The Burke Enigma. Subsequently he joined BBC Television Drama as a story editor and wrote for ITV's The Professionals. He has published a volume of poems, Fifty Fingers, several TV and original novels and a series of best-selling biographies, among them the acclaimed authorised biography of Robert Redford. A painter and filmmaker, he has also produced and directed documentaries on The Beach Boys and Luke Kelly of the Dubliners.