Michael Bloch


Michael Anthony Bloch is an author and historian.
Educated at Portadown College and St John's College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1978 and in 1979 became an assistant to Maître Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Bloch's books include several about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an authorized biography of James Lees-Milne, a study of the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, and a biography of Frederick Matthias Alexander, founder of the Alexander Technique.

Books

Bloch edited the later diaries of James Lees-Milne for publication by John Murray: Deep Romantic Chasm, 1979-81 ; Holy Dread, 1982-84 ; Beneath a Waning Moon, 1985-97 ; Ceaseless Turmoil, 1988-92 ; The Milk of Paradise, 1993-97. He also abridged the original 12-volume series in 3 volumes: Diaries, 1942-54 ; Diaries, 1971-83; Diaries, 1984-97.