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Michael Sims
| Full Name: |
Michael
Sims |
| Born: |
February 17, 1958
Crossville, Tennesse, USA |
| Occupation: |
Editor, Non-Fiction Writer, Anthologist |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Michael Sims is a noted American nonfiction writer, author most recently of The Story of Charlotte's Web (2011). His other nonfiction books include In the Womb: Animals (2009), Apollo's Fire (2007), Adam's Navel (2003), and Darwin's Orchestra (1997). He is also an acclaimed anthologist.
Born in rural eastern Tennessee, near the small town of Crossville, Sims has described in interviews how he grew up in a household without a telephone, an automobile, or, at times, indoor plumbing. He spent his teenage years in a wheelchair because of rheumatic arthritis following an attack of rheumatic fever.
Although Robert Macfarlane in the Sunday Times (London) said that Sims "is clearly the beneficiary of a wide-ranging American liberal-arts education," actually Sims did not attend university. But he developed in childhood a preoccupation with literature, art, and nature, themes that dominate his adult work.
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