Michael C. Lawrence (born 14 September 1943)[1] is an English writer for children and young adults.
His work most widely held in WorldCat libraries is the 2003 novel A Crack in the Line, first in a trilogy called The Aldous Lexicon, or Withern Rise in the United States.
In his teens he attended Ealing School of Art before working in London as a graphic designer and photographer.
Later, Lawrence became an art and antiques dealer, but when he sold a novel (When the Snow Falls, published in 1995), he decided to concentrate on writing for young people.
[3] When the Snow Falls was later rewritten and recast for older readers as A Crack in the Line, the first novel in The Withern Rise Trilogy.