Michael Swan

A young English traveler and biographer, MICHAEL SWAN, now in his early thirties, free-lances where he pleases and writes about the people and places that invite his pen. He is the author of Ilex and Olive, a book descriptive of his peregrinations in France and Italy; of a short biography of Henry James; and of Temples of the Sun and Moon: A Mexican Journey, which has recently appeared in England. The portrait which follows was written in Spain,where he went in quest of new source material.

An English free lance now in his twenty-ninth year, MICHAEL SWAN travels where he pleases and writes about the places which invite his pen. He is the author of Ilex and Olive, a book descriptive of his peregrinations in France and Italy, and of a short biography of Henry James; and he has recently returned to England from Mexico, where he spent several months gathering source material for a new book.