Mike Marqusee

Mike Marqusee (1953-2015) was an American-born writer, journalist and political activist who spent the last four and half decades of his life in London. He is the author of numerous books including The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer, If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the Sixties, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock’s Labour Party, War Minus the Shooting: A Journey Through South Asia During Cricket’s World Cup, Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket, a novel, Slow Turn, and two collections of poetry, Street Music and Saved by a Wandering Mind.