Michael Dean has a history degree from Worcester College, Oxford, an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Edinburgh University and a translator's qualification (AIL) in German. He has published several novels. The Darkness into Light omnibus (Sharpe Books, 2017): The Rise and Fall of the Nazis comprises five titles: Before the Darkness - about the German Jewish Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, assassinated in 1922; The Crooked Cross - about Hitler and art; The Enemy Within - about Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation; Hour Zero - about Germany in 1946; Magic City - a novel of Jewish identity set in Germany in the early 1970s. He also published some stand-alone novels: Thorn, (Bluemoose Books, 2011) about Spinoza and Rembrandt; I, Hogarth (Duckworth-Overlook, 2012), which sets out to unify Hogarth's life with his art; The White Crucifixion, a novel about Marc Chagall, was published by Holland Park Press in February 2018. True Freedom - How America came to fight Britain for its independence was published by Holland Park Press in June 2019. His non-fiction includes a book about Chomsky and many educational publications.