![]() He joined The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh during the headiest days of Scottish nationalism and in 1971 was hired by the Sunday Times in London, where he was financial reporter, editor of an Insight investigative unit and a writer and editor for the paper's Spectrum feature pages. He returned to study history at Oxford, won various prizes and was about to become an academic when he realized that writing, and writing often, was the only thing he knew how to do. ![]() He grew up in the English countryside and, in the classic English manner, was sent abroad to grow up: to the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy. He now lives with his partner John Holm in a tiny village in the forests of rural Portugal. ![]() For twenty years he commuted between New York and Europe as a political and cultural columnist for British newspapers. He is English by birth, but civilized by study in Italy and a newspaper apprenticeship in Scotland. ![]() Michael Pye writes for a living - as novelist, journalist, historian and sometimes broadcaster. ![]()
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