Editing Michael Moorcock (section)

==Biography==
Michael Moorcock was born in [[Mitcham]], Surrey (now Greater London) in December 1939,<ref name="fantasybookreview.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Michael-Moorcock/biography.html|title=Michael Moorcock biography|work=Fantasy Book Review|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402153236/http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Michael-Moorcock/biography.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the landscape of London, particularly the area of [[Notting Hill Gate]]<ref name="newstatesman">{{cite news|author=Andrew Harrison|title=Michael Moorcock: 'I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist'|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/07/michael-moorcock-i-think-tolkien-was-crypto-fascist|work=[[New Statesman]]|date=24 July 2015|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=15 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415131135/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/07/michael-moorcock-i-think-tolkien-was-crypto-fascist|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Ladbroke Grove]], is an important influence in some of his fiction (such as the [[Jerry Cornelius|Cornelius]] novels).<ref name="ballardian.com">{{cite web|title=Angry Old Men: Michael Moorcock on J.G. Ballard|url=http://www.ballardian.com/angry-old-men-michael-moorcock-on-jg-ballard|publisher=Ballardian|date=9 July 2007|access-date=2 August 2015|archive-date=16 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916103550/http://www.ballardian.com/angry-old-men-michael-moorcock-on-jg-ballard|url-status=live}}</ref>

Moorcock has mentioned ''[[The Master Mind of Mars]]'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[The Apple Cart]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]] and ''The Constable of St. Nicholas'' by [[Edwin Lester Arnold]] as the first three non-juvenile books that he read before beginning primary school.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040701233612/http://www.novymir.com.au/terminalcafe/intpeopl.html Thoughts \ Interviews \ People Online Chat with Michael Moorcock<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The first book he bought was a secondhand copy of ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/i-was-facing-truths-i-didnt-particularly-want-to-look-at-michael-moorcock-interview/|title='I was facing truths I didn't particularly want to look at': Michael Moorcock interview – The Spectator|date=8 August 2015|access-date=25 August 2017|archive-date=30 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130154512/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/i-was-facing-truths-i-didnt-particularly-want-to-look-at-michael-moorcock-interview/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Moorcock is the former husband of the writer [[Hilary Bailey]], with whom he had three children: Sophie (b. 1963), Katherine (b. 1964), and Max (b. 1972).<ref name=newstatesman/> Moorcock is also the former husband of Jill Riches, who later married [[Robert Calvert]]. She illustrated some of Moorcock's books, including covers, among them the dustjacket for the first edition of ''[[Gloriana (novel)|Gloriana]]'' ([[Allison and Busby]], 1978).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Summary Bibliography: Jill Riches |url=https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?58821 |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=isfdb.org}}</ref> In 1983, Linda Steele became Moorcock's third wife.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moorcock |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kcpmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8 |title=The Steel Tsar |date=2018-10-04 |publisher=Orion |isbn=978-0-575-09272-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[http://www.multiverse.org/index.php?title=Michael_Moorcock "Michael Moorcock"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215224711/http://www.multiverse.org/index.php?title=Michael_Moorcock |date=15 December 2018 }}, multiverse.org.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TLS {{!}} April 11, 2025 {{!}} Book reviews, essays and more. |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/current-issue |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=TLS |language=en-GB}}</ref>

He was an early member of the [[Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America]] (SAGA), a loose-knit group of eight [[heroic fantasy]] authors founded in the 1960s and led by [[Lin Carter]],  selected by fantasy credentials alone.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Troughton|first=R.K.|date=2014-01-22|title=Interview with SFWA Grand Master Michael Moorcock|url=https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/08/05/interview-with-sfwa-grand-master-michael-moorcock/|access-date=2020-08-24|website=PM Press|archive-date=30 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430170127/https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/08/05/interview-with-sfwa-grand-master-michael-moorcock/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- source is our SAGA -->

Moorcock is the subject of four book-length works, a monograph and an interview, by [[Colin Greenland]]. In 1983, Greenland published ''[[The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction]]''. He followed this with ''Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle'', a book-length interview about technique, in 1992. ''Michael Moorcock: Law of Chaos'' by Jeff Gardiner and ''Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World's Pain'' by Mark Scroggins were published more recently.

In the 1990s, Moorcock moved to [[Texas]] in the United States.<ref name="ofblog.blogspot.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://ofblog.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/interview-with-michael-moorcock.html|title=An Interview with Michael Moorcock|date=5 May 2006|work=ofblog.blogspot.co.uk|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=6 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106071919/http://ofblog.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/interview-with-michael-moorcock.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His wife Linda is American.<ref name="theguardian.com">{{cite news|author=Hari Kunzru|title=When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/04/michael-moorcock-hari-kunzru|work=The Guardian|date=4 February 2011|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=4 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504204753/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/04/michael-moorcock-hari-kunzru|url-status=live}}</ref> He spends half of the year in Texas, the other half in [[Paris]], France.<ref name="newstatesman"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Ben Graham|title=Talking to the Sci-Fi Lord: Regenerations & Ruminations With Michael Moorcock|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/05325-michael-moorcock-interview-dr-who-the-coming-of-the-terraphiles|work=The Quietus|date=22 November 2010|access-date=15 November 2016|archive-date=27 October 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141027233526/http://thequietus.com/articles/05325-michael-moorcock-interview-dr-who-the-coming-of-the-terraphiles|url-status=live}}</ref>