Michael Hicks Thompson

Born and raised on a Mississippi farm, Michael Hicks Thompson can claim more than a little knowledge about small towns, strong Christian women, alcoholic men, and Jesus. A writer of movie scripts and novels, Thompson is a self-taught artist, licensed offshore sailor, and scuba diver. He is the writer and director of the two-volume David , an illustrated novel on the life of King David. Volume one was awarded the Silver Medal IPPY from the Independent Publisher's Association in 2011, with...See more

Born and raised on a Mississippi farm, Michael Hicks Thompson can claim more than a little knowledge about small towns, strong Christian women, alcoholic men, and Jesus. A writer of movie scripts and novels, Thompson is a self-taught artist, licensed offshore sailor, and scuba diver. He is the writer and director of the two-volume David , an illustrated novel on the life of King David. Volume one was awarded the Silver Medal IPPY from the Independent Publisher's Association in 2011, with volume two winning the Best Graphic Novel award from International Book Awards in 2013. The Rector grew out of The Parchman Preacher , a novella Thompson published in 2014. A sequel, The Actress , will be published in 2016, and a novel on a future without clean water, Clouds Above , is also due for publication in 2016. More information about Thompson is available at his website, ... See less