Michael Stephen Silk, FBA, is a decorated emeritus professor author and a retired professor of classical and comparative literature at King's College, London. He was elected a member of the British Academy in 2009 and has illustrated 7 works of literature in relation to the theory and practice of tragedy and comedy, Greek poetry and drama, literary theory, and the classical tradition.[1] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1999. [2]
Born in Birmingham on the 11th June 1941, Michael was born to parent who were Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated Poland, Warsaw 9 years prior to his birth to escape the Holocaust. He lived with his older brother John Silk. He attended King's Heath High School and then attended Cambridge in 1959 on a scholarship to study Greek Classics, where he then obtained his PhD after 8 years. This is where he met Laurel Silk (a retired podiatrist) - his wife since 1962, who he had children with. He then moved to teaching at King's College London where he became a tenured professor after teaching for 50 years, now having retired in 2017. He now a father, grandfather and great-grandfather who lives in Kent and still composes literary pieces. He is also a chess international master.
^Professor Michael Silk. King's College London. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
^Professor Michael Silk. British Academy. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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