Michael Calvin

Michael Calvin is an award-winning writer and internationally bestselling author, whose books have been hailed for their insight and influence. He has collaborated with such celebrated sportsmen as Sir Alastair Cook, Dylan Hartley and Gareth Thomas, and is the only writer to win the British Sports Book of the Year award in successive years. His football trilogy spawned three critically acclaimed documentaries.

Most recently, and in a wider context, he has collaborated on best-selling autobiographies of Toby Gutteridge, a quadriplegic former Special Forces Soldier, and of Josef Lewkowicz, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. His current book, Miracle : The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz, was an instant Sunday Times best seller when it was released in January 2026. His next book, 1966, a social history of the year in which England won the World Cup, is due to be published in late May, 2026.