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Michael Bloch is a freelance historian and writer. He read Law at St. John’s College, Cambridge, before being called to the Bar. He later worked with Suzanne Blum, the French lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and throughout this period had privileged access to the Windsor files in Paris. He has subsequently written six books on the couple, including The Duke of Windsor’s War (1982), The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor (1988) and The Reign and Abdication of Edward VIII (1990). He also edited Wallis and Edward: Letters 1931-1937 (1986).
Since then, he has edited a number of volumes of the diaries of James Lees-Milne, and was the co-producer of a play based on those diaries, called Ancestral Voices. His biography of Ribbentrop (1992) was chosen by Hugh Trevor-Roper as his Book of the Year in the Sunday Telegraph, and he has since written a new biography of Wallis Simpson called The Duchess of Windsor (1997), and FM: the Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander (2004). Michael is currently working on a definitive biography of James Lees-Milne, due to be published by John Murray in 2008.
Recent books:
James Lees-Milne (John Murray: due 2008)
FM: the Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander (Little, Brown: 2004)
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