Martin J. Goodman

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Martin J. Goodman (born 1956 in Leicester ) is a British writer.

Life

Martin Goodman received his PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University in 2007 . He was a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth and has been Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull since 2009 . Goodman is the founder and publisher of Barbican Press, a literary publisher .

His novel On Bended Knees was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1992 . With In Search of the Divine Mother he wrote a biography of the Indian Mother Meera . His play Feeding the Roses won a Virtual Theater Project Award and was performed at Wake Forest University in the United States. In 2007 he wrote a textbook for creative writing with Sara Maitland . Doctor's Biography John Scott Haldane Suffer & Survive received an award from the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2008 . In 2014, Goodman produced a documentary about fantasy author Alan Garner on BBC Radio 4 . With his spouse, environmental lawyer James Thornton , he published the non-fiction book Client Earth on environmental issues in 2017 . The protagonists of the 2018 novel J SS Bach are descendants of perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust .

Fonts (selection)

  • On bended knees . London: Macmillan, 1992
  • In search of the divine mother: the mystery of Mother Meera: encountering a contemporary mystic . London: Thorsons, 1998 ISBN 0-7225-3688-7
  • I was Carlos Castaneda: the afterlife dialogues . New York: Three River Press, 2001
  • On sacred mountains . Loughborough: Heart of Albion, 2002
  • Slippery when wet . Oxford: Transita, 2006
  • with Sara Maitland: The Write Guide . New Writing North, 2007
  • Suffer and survive: gas attacks, miners' canaries, spacesuits and the bends: the extreme life of Dr JS Haldane . London: Simon & Schuster, 2007
  • Look who's watching . Chatham: Caffeine Nights, 2010
  • (Ed.): Writing Hull: true-life tales from sixteen writers . Hull: Barbican Press, 2012
  • Ectopia . Novel. London: Barbican Press, 2013
  • When opposites attract: award-winning stories by teens from Hull . London: Barbican Press, 2013
  • with James Thornton: Client Earth: Building an Ecological Civilization . London: Scribe, 2017
  • J SS Bach . Novel. Wrecking Ball Press, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on James Thornton see At Work with the FT interview: James Thornton, ClientEarth , Interview in the Financial Times, May 11, 2016
  2. ↑ J SS Bach , publisher's announcement, at Wreckingball Press
  3. ↑ Carl Wilkinson: JSS Bach by Martin Goodman - orchestral maneuvers , review in: Financial Times, March 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Goodman, Martin J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodman, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester