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Michael Wilding (born 1942) is a British-born writer and academic who has spent most of his career at the University of Sydney, where he has been an emeritus professor in English and Australian literature since 2002.
Early life and education
Michael Wilding was born in 1942 in Worcester, England, and read English at Oxford University, where he graduated in 1963 with BA with first-class honours.
Academic career
Wilding took up an appointment as assistant lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1963, where he stayed for three years. He returned to England in 1967, earned his M.A., and took up a lectureship at the University of Birmingham.
He has published many novels and short story collections, and has had his stories published widely in anthologies. which ran from 1972 to 1982
- He was a co-founder of the publishers Wild & Woolley, with Pat Woolley.