John Michell
Actor, Author
1933 – 2009
Who was John Michell?
John Frederick Carden Michell was an English writer whose key sources of inspiration were Plato and Charles Fort. His 1969 volume The View Over Atlantis has been described as probably the most influential book in the history of the hippy/underground movement and one that had far-reaching effects on the study of strange phenomena: it "put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age."
In some 40-odd titles over five decades he examined, often in pioneering style, such topics as sacred geometry, earth mysteries, geomancy, gematria, archaeoastronomy, metrology, euphonics, simulacra and sacred sites, as well as Fortean phenomena. An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question. His Who Wrote Shakespeare? was reckoned by The Washington Post "the best overview yet of the authorship question."
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- Born
- Feb 9, 1933
London - Also known as
- John Frederick Carden Michell
- John Frederick Michell
- Spouses
- Jocasta Innes
- Denise Price
(2007 - )
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Eton College
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Died
- Apr 24, 2009
Stoke Abbott
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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