M. K. Joseph

Michael Kennedy Joseph (9 July 1914 – 4 October 1981) was a British-born New Zealand poet and novelist in several genres. He studied at Sacred Heart College, Auckland. His works range from I'll Soldier No More, A Pound of Saffron and A Soldier's Tale to the science fiction works The Hole in the Zero and The Time of Achamoth to a historical novel Kaspar's Journey based on the medieval Children's Crusade. The Hole in the Zero includes the first known use of the word "hoverboard".[1]

Joseph was also a Professor of English at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.[2] In 1969, he edited the 1831 text of Frankenstein for Oxford University Press; in 1980 the text was reissued in the World's Classics series.[3]

Novels by M. K. Joseph
  • I’ll Soldier No More (1958)
  • A Pound of Saffron (1962)
  • The Hole in the Zero (1967)
  • A Soldier’s Tale (1976)
  • The Time of Achamoth (1977)
  • Kaspar’s Journey (1988)
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gollark: The application system here is actually very weird - you don't get grades until August, 2 months before university terms start, but you do applications in September (the **previous** September) to January.
gollark: Not for universities.
gollark: Possibly.
gollark: Probably going to university to do something or other in 2 years, and "something" might be engineering of some sort, but I don't technically have to decide on that for *one* year so procrastination time.

References
  1. Shea, Ammon. "Hoverboard". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
  2. Joseph, M.K. (ed.), Mary Shelley. p. i, authors' biographies. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Oxford World's Classics, 1998.
  3. Joseph, M.K. (ed.), Mary Shelley. p. iv, copyright notices. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Oxford World's Classics, 1998.
  • New Zealand Book Council: M. K. Joseph
  • Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1998, p. 274.


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