Mick brown was born in 1950 in London. He was (barely) educated at Reigate Grammar School, one of the Britain's oldest and most distinguished grammar schools.He left school at 16 with negligable academic qualifications, and then worked in various menial but character-building jobs until finally securing a breakthrough into journalism. Mick has worked as a staff writer and columnist for the Sunday Times and as a senior editor on the Sunday Correspondent. He has also written for the Guardian, The Observer, the Independent and sundry British and international publications, including Rolling Stone.

For the past nine years Brown has been a contributing writer to the Telegraph magazine, writing on a broad range of subjects. In 25 years of journalism he has interviewed Salvador Dali, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Don DeLillo, Berry Gordy, Ravi Shankar, the Dalai Lama and too many more to mention. He has unearthed the reclusive Cormac McCarthy in a diner in El Paso, restrained his temper at a Ku Klux Klan meeting in East Texas and gone looking for missing persons in the Kullu Valley.

Mick Brown's radio work includes, "The Second Coming", a documentary for the BBC about the Maitreya legend, and "Cult Classics" - a 5-part series on cult books for the BBC, short-listed for a Sony Award.

Brown has also written 3 books: Richard Branson: The Inside Story, a biography of the records-to-airlines tycoon, American Heartbeat: A musical journey across America from San Jose to Woodstock, and The Spiritual Tourist.

Mick is married with three childern, and lives in London