Michael Baigent

Michael Baigent was born in New Zealand in 1948. He graduated with a BA in Psychology from Canterbury University, Christchurch. Since 1976 he has lived in England with his wife and children in order to research and write. He is currently studying at the University of Kent for an MA in Mysticism and Religious Experience.

He is also the author of From the Omens of Babylon and Ancient Traces, and, with Richard Leigh, has co-authored a number of books, including the international bestsellers, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (with Henry Lincoln), The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, Secret Germany, The Elixir and the Stone and The Inquisition. Ancient Traces and The Inquisition are both published by Penguin.