Michael Schmidt OBE[1] FRSL[2] (born 2 March 1947)[3] is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher.
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Schmidt was educated at The Hill School from 1959 to 1965 and earned an English-Speaking Union Scholarship to attend Christ's Hospital School (1965–66).
A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected in 1993),[2] Schmidt received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry.
[5] Schmidt refers to himself in his 1998 book Lives of the Poets as "an Anglophone Mexican publisher".
[5] Schmidt's 2014 book, The Novel: A Biography, is a loosely chronological history of the development of the novel.