Michael Arditti
(? - living) U.K.
Writer
Born in Cheshire, he was brought up, the eldest of two children in a comfotable middle-class family. His mother took him to the theatre and the ballet. He was then sent to a preparatory school. He continued his schooling at Rydal, a public school in north Wales. While there he became Head Boy, chaired the debating society, and edited the school magazine. Arditti studied English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge university. He was at Cambridge at the same time as Nicholas Hytner, Declan Donellan, and Michael Portillo.
Arditti moved to London in 1984 and settled into a flat in Primrose Hill. He has written plays for the radio and the stage, and he has been a literary and theatre critic. He was theatre critic for The Evening Standard and the London listings magazine City Limits. For a while, he was Nicholas de Jongh's deputy at London's Evening Standard.
He became a regular book critic for The Times, the Independent, and the Daily Mail. He has also been a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. His novel, Easter, (2000), won The Waterstone's Mardi Gras Book Award. Arditti is an Anglican and a regular attender at St Mark's church in Primrose Hill, London.
Some of his books:
- The Celibate (1994)
- Pagan and Her Father (1996)
- Pagan and Her Parents (1997)
- The Loyal Wife (2000)
- Pagan's Father (2000)
- Easter (2000)
Excerpts from: The Knitting Circle, U.K., http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/people.html
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