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michael hyde biography |
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Michael’s most recent success is the series, ‘Change the Game’, choose-your-own-adventure footy and soccer books that have become overnight favourites with young readers. Over twenty thousand copies have been sold in the last year. His bodyboarding novel, Surfing Goliath (Lothian/Hachette), published in May 2006, sold out in three months.
Currently
he is working on the sequel to Hey Joe, working
title of All Along the Watchtower (Vulgar Press);
a football novel (Hardie Grant Egmont) and four extreme sports novels
(Lothian/Hachette).
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His
recent novels for Young Adults, Hey Joe, MAX
and Tyger Tyger have experienced critical success
and continue to be widely read and taught in many schools. His most recent
work, Hey Joe—about the Vietnam War, the
movement against it and the sixties in Australia—was named as a
Notable Book in the 2004 CBC Awards. Many of his short stories for Younger
Readers are published in the Trend/Awesome Series including the popular
titles: The Footy Coach from Hell, Seal
saves the Island and How I got a girlfriend.
Michael recently edited two senior anthologies for the Australian Association
of English Teachers (AATE), Hunger (CBC Notable
Book 2004) and The Girl who Married a Fly (CBC
Notable Book 2002). Both anthologies feature popular YA Australian writers
(including Michael) and like his novels, enjoy significant sales.
After
a long career as an English teacher Michael (with stints as a journalist
and truck driver) now lectures in Professional Writing, Sports Writing
and Children’s Texts at Victoria University. His many non-fiction
works include being the series editor and writer for the national English
Series, Englishworks, a writer for the Macmillan series Mosaic, and his
own textbook The Diary of my Secret Life (a guide to the craft of writing).
Other non-fiction works include the Richard Osborne biography, Ossie
Rules and Asia at a Glance, a
CD Rom and English Curriculum Units for secondary students.