Miles Gibson is a reclusive English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 novelist, poet and artist. He was born in a squatters camp at an abandoned World War II airbase - RAF Holmsley South

RAF Holmsley South

RAF Station Holmsley South is a former World War II airfield in Hampshire, England. The airfield is located approximately northeast of Christchurch; about southwest of London...

 in the New Forest

New Forest

The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily-populated south east of England. It covers south-west Hampshire and extends into south-east Wiltshire....

 and raised in Christchurch

Christchurch

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

, Hampshire

Hampshire

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...

.

His works include two collections of poetry, The Guilty Bystander (1970) and Permanent Damage (1973), as well as the novels The Sandman

The Sandman (novel)

The Sandman is the first novel by English writer Miles Gibson, originally published by Heinemann in 1984 and subsequently translated into several languages. A black comedy recording the life and times of a good-natured serial killer who murders for the fun of it...

(1984), Dancing with Mermaids

Dancing with Mermaids

Dancing With Mermaids is a novel that was written by the English writer Miles Gibson. An erotic exercise in magic realism set in a secluded fishing village on the Dorset coast. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 1985....

(1985), Vinegar Soup (1987), Kingdom Swann

Kingdom Swann

Kingdom Swann is a novel by Miles Gibson that was first published by Heinemann in 1990. It is a rambunctious satire on the dangerously thin line between art and pornography, fact and fantasy...

(1990), Fascinated (1993), The Prisoner of Meadow Bank (1995), Mr Romance (2002) and Einstein

Einstein (novel)

Einstein is a novel by British author Miles Gibson published in 2004 by The-Do-Not Press.It is a darkly satirical, angry comedy with a lively streak of science fiction in which the hero and his dog encounter a Deep Time Mariner, an alien traveller sent down to Earth to evacuate important biological...

 (2004). His works for children include Say Hello to the Buffalo, illustrated by Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's literature, and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize seven times....

 (1994), Little Archie (2004) and Whoops - There Goes Joe (2006). Kingdom Swann was adapted by David Nobbs

David Nobbs

David Gordon Nobbs is an English comedy writer.Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies...

 as the feature-length comedy drama Gentlemen's Relish for BBC

BBC

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 TV, starring Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly

William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin...

, Sarah Lancashire

Sarah Lancashire

Sarah Lancashire is an English actress, probably best recognised for her role as Raquel Watts in Coronation Street. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986.-Television:...

 and Douglas Henshall

Douglas Henshall

Douglas James Henshall is a Scottish actor probably best known for his role as Professor Nick Cutter in the British science fiction series Primeval.-Early life:...

 (2001).

His manuscripts and papers are in the Special Collections

Special collections

In library science, special collections is the name applied to a specific repository or department, usually within a library, which stores materials of a "special" nature, including rare books, archives, and collected manuscripts...

 of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Centre at Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

USA.