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Michael Hoeye

Michael Hoeye

Biography

Michael Hoeye has worked as a farmer, fashion photographer, stagehand and high-school teacher. He and his wife, Martha, live in a stone cottage in Oregon with their cat, Lionel. They enjoy the company of nine big oak trees, six bigger fir trees, three fat squirrels, a noisy family of woodpeckers and a travelling circus of nuthatches, blue jays, crows, finches and robins.

Michael's first novel for children Time Stops For No Mouse, was a worldwide success. The Sands of Time is his second book.

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PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH:
Los Angeles, California, 1947

FAVOURITE BOOK:
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

MOST TREASURED POSSESSION
An old neon clock that used to hang in the lobby of my godparents’ motel on the outskirts of Sonora, a small town in Texas.

FAVOURITE SONG:
Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp, Laura Nyro

FAVOURITE FILM:
8 ½, Federico Fellini

When did you start writing?
I started writing when I was fourteen years old. It was not a good beginning. I announced to my English teacher that I wanted to write an adventure novel. Happy to hear that, she excused me from class and sent me to work in a book storage closet at the end of the hall. It had a small table, a straight-backed chair, and a typewriter. She gave me a stack of blank paper and wished me luck.

It was a very exciting beginning. I departed from class with great fanfare....

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