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Guyanese-British author (born 1941)

Michael Angus PhillipsOBE FRSL (born 8 August 1941),^[1] is a British writer and broadcast journalist of Guyanese descent. He is best known for his crime fiction, including four novels featuring black journalist Sam Dean.^[2]

Early years

Mike Phillips was born in Georgetown, a port city in the equatorial colony British Guiana (now Guyana). In 1956 with his family he migrated to Islington in London, England, when he was aged about 14.^[1] He was educated at the University of London (English), the University of Essex (Politics), and received a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Goldsmiths College, London.

Career

Phillips worked as a teacher in the early 1970s, before being invited to present an April 1973 episode of the BBC Television programme Open Door about the experiences of black teachers in the English education system.^[3][4] He subsequently worked for the BBC as a journalist and broadcaster until 1983, then became a lecturer in med

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